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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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Provide structured search support to NLU enrichments for textual data assets

Today, when a PDF or other text documents are profiled, NLU analyzes text with Keywords, Concepts and Categories. Such "enrichments" generated by NLU should be leveraged to find and select data assets. In fact it looks like having an embedded WDS ...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Enhance Excel Import to Include all Characteristics of CSV/Text Import

The Excel data source node frequently identifies the data type of a column incorrectly. In the variable and fixed length text import nodes, you can override this behavior under the "Data" tab. This functionality does not exist for Excel. This crea...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Add filter data details in PDF - Dashboard export when filter condition is applied on a filter in a visualization

When filter condition is applied to a filter in the visualization, filter data goes missing in the PDF when dashboard is exported. End user is unable to view the filter data details when dashboard is exported in PDF format.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Provide support in Db2 native encryption for KMIP 1.2 or higher

DB2 native encryption currently supports KMIP 1.1 where the master key flows (in a secure communication channel) from the centralized keystore to Db2 in order to decrypt the data encryption key. Later versions of KMIP support an alternate approach...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Cloud Pak for Data can run and work well in the Antivirus SW scanning environment

Cloud Pak for Data takes strict security measures to address the security concerns from customer from both platform and underlying OS level as below: 1)Cloud Pak for Data Security White Paper https://community.ibm.com/HigherLogic/System/DownloadDo...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Data Module shortcuts should inherit target navigation paths

Shortcuts are a new feature within a Data Module. Shortcuts should inherit all the attributes of the target object. For example, I can create a shortcut to the Product dimension. The product dimension can be included within a navigation path. Any ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

Cognos for Office Excel Import new option for Excel Data only

In Cognos Web UI you can export any report with the Option "Excel Data". If you choose this option the export doesn't take any formatting option or grouping option from the report. In Cognos for Office Excel Add-In you can choose the option "Ingno...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improved filtering in CP4D Monitoring (sliding window in time)

We’re very happy with the added Monitoring capabilities in CP4D 4.6.2, which go a long way to cover our Monitoring needs. However, in order to be more independent of additional custom-developed monitoring to be exposed via Grafana, it would be use...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Show output while a job is running

Currently Watson Studio doesn't show the logs or the cell output for the notebook that is scheduled as a job. While training a ML model on a larger training data, its very tough to track the progress of the job without seeing the cell output. Henc...
about 5 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio on Cloud 1 Delivered

SPSS need to work with a DQM environment

There is no work around for this issue. We are getting more and more customers asking to use SPSS and we can't offer it to them as a workable solution. This definitely needs to be addressed soon. Check with Michael on history of SPSS and Cognos da...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration