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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Two pass logic

When a user attempts to delete a record on OpenPages, the system presents them with a pop-up ‘OK' / ‘Cancel'. It's a really good ‘user experience'. We'd like to implement a similar two-pass logic, and being able to utilise this same approach would...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Word Cloud to break sentences into words

We often want to use a free format data entry field to build a word cloud. For example if I had four rows of data that looked like: "Went to a meeting by car""Attended a meeting""Pool Car""Flight to internal meeting" And I created a word cloud I w...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Simplification and consistency of "Covert to" options in PAx

"Convert to Snapshot" in right click menu can be confused with "Convert To" option in PAx ribbon when then functionality is different. "Convert To" allows conversion to other types of reports while "Convert to Snapshot" saves values as static in t...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Folder Security

We would like to have a feature that allows a user to create contentwithin a folder(reports, other folders, etc..), but disallows them frombeing able to delete any content. In other words, we would like it suchthat 'write' permissions don't necess...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Flag high volatile tables as 'VOLATILE' and access those tables differently than normal tables by the query optimizer

A volatile table is defined as a table whose contents can vary from empty to very large at run time. In other words , statistics data is often out of date and may result in wrong access plans by the optimizer and subsequently may have lock the ent...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of the x-ibm-property to support dynamic display of an input table

Unable to show input table dynamically using x-ibm property "x-ibm-ui-extension" with validation key words like "contains" or "equals" We are trying to use the x-ibm-extension property to show a dynamic display of table to the user based on an inp...
10 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Not under consideration

User searches by any word (except the first word) in the asset name (Catalog UI), the search returns 'No Results Found'

When searching by any word (except the first word) in the asset name (Catalog UI), the search returns 'No Results Found'
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Improve API response structure for timestamps and word_confidence within STT SpeechRecognitionAlternative model

As part of the response from making a POST to the v1/recognize endpoint in the Speech to Text service, the user receives an array of "alternatives". Within these "alternatives" objects, there are two arrays called "word_confidence" and "transcript...
almost 8 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Not under consideration

Data driven text visualization

On dashboards there is often a need to annotate or comment on the data being displayed. For example, I may wish to indicate in a comment what percentage of my employees meet a certain criteria. This could be accomplished with a hard-coded string i...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improvements for Automatic Runstats

Auto-runstats (AR) is invoked by health monitor on a fixed timer, each timer 7500 seconds (approx . 2 hours) apart. AR consists of "iterations". In each iteration, AR evaluates tables/views one by one. If a table is deemed needing stats, AR will i...
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration