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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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



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Handle rating scale conversions between Documents rated using API and documents rated using Static relevancy training

Handle rating scale conversions between Documents rated using API and documents rated using Static relevancy training. We are an OEM partner of IBM and have built a Chatbot integration with Watson Discovery search. The end Users of Chatbot rate in...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Clean Dimensions after Element Deletion

When in debug logging, it was noticed that deleted elements in dimensions would throw errors on cube load. e.g 9/2024 4:54 PM TM1.Cube Loading body for cube }StatsByRule 21116 Debug 07/29/2024 4:54 PM TM1.Cube.Loading Could not find element "Gen S...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

More meaning APAR Software version

When reviewing an APAR on IBM site, there is a "Software version" field. This field invariable lists some meaningless value. For example, https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH42408?myns=swgimgmt&mynp=OCSSTSF6&mync=E&cm_sp=swgimgmt-...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Not under consideration

Disabled Active Directory account should have their saved credentials removed from Cognos content store

When an account has been disabled in Active Directory the saved credentials still exist in Cognos, meaning scheduled jobs are still running. This poses a security risk as the report is still distributed even though that account has been disabled i...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support JSON-Functions

More and more architecture decisions turning into service oriented architectures. In this case data is not available in relational tables anymore but eg. JSON files. In data modules JSON functions can be implemented to show report authors data in ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Identify Adabas return code by DVM

The DVM enhancement to pass the ADABAS TLSCMD parm overridee works as designed and we can see it being passed to Adabas. If the value of the ADABASCMDTIMELIMIT parameter exceeds the maximum allowed by Adabas, it gives us the error RC=7, an error d...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

-MODIFY GBPOOL command - Allow Db2 sysadmins to manage GBP CF structures without permitting access to MVS SETXCF

The Challenge Currently, the Data-Sharing Planning and Administration Guide states that SETXCF commands are necessary for the administration of Db2 Group Bufferpools, particularly functions such as: Re-sizing group bufferpools Rebuilding group...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Extending properties box to see MUN/Expression

When you're either in the page explorer or the query explorer it is always useful to see the full MUN (for dimensional) or Expression (for relational). With the pop in / pop out properties box you can't extend the size of this box to see the full ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Time frequency missing while Scheduling Jobs - hourly timestamp missing in Cognos Controller

The client would like to reduce the monthly closing process step where they order Consolidation By status jobs on batch. The client would like to run Consolidation By Status in Batch on an hourly basis. For that the client will need to manually or...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

PAW Upgrade - automate PAW Content upgrade

Each time PAW is upgraded, the content is not upgraded and there is no automated way for a PAW administrator to do it. This seems strange forcing someone to open and save the object to have it upgraded. In some cases, users aren’t allowed to save ...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration