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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Enable / Disable pages in a multi-page report

For developement of reports with mutliple pages it would be nice, if we could easily enable / disable some pages. We think about a similar functionality as we know for filters.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel Export Group repeated cells set at page level

We create reports that detail the user-selected prompt choices on a cover page and the actual report on a report page. The cover page consists of a table with two columns: left column are all the prompt choices available, right column consists of ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support annotation tasks for structured data in WKS to define column-to-column or column-to-Primary Key relationshios (semantic, dependency, etc. )

Watson Knowledge Studio supports annotation tasks in support of type system development for unstructured data; however, it does not currently support structured data annotation tasks. The ability to define relationships between columns would offer...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Allow http links to be used within PAW for on premise (local) installations

Currently the widgets for adding images/media/webpages within a book within PAW are restricted to https links. If http is used an error is displayed, the web page must be accessed using an https link. Whilst this may be fine for a cloud based envi...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Retrun SQL code to verify

My customer is developing an application that issues SQL to DB2 using the CLASSIC FEDERATION(CF).CF handles the SQL code other than 0 and +100 as errors and does not return it.The user is unable to handle the SQL code and is unable to develop a va...
almost 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Add delete confirmation on Multi-reponse nodes

One of the USP of Watson Assistant is super intuitive Dialog editor UI. Developers being key targets for WA, it is imperetive to have best in class UI. On nodes, multi-response condition, there is a delete and a gear icon. The icons are too close ...
almost 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Need ability to search dimensions and levels, not just members.

We have many sources in our environment, but they are not all documented formally yet. And some of our dimension levels definitely contain more than 20 items.As an author, I often have a need to determine if a particular source has a particular di...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make a FastTrack a tool suitable for designing and documenting ETL mapping

The InfoSphere tool suite is missing a piece.It is a great tool to govern you data warehouse using IGC with the business glossary, data lineage viewer among the highlights and it is a great tool to create the ETL flows in. What about the inbetween...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

ADMIN ACCELERATOR RESTORE Command availability

We are in the process of migrating home grown Accel administation processes for adding, loading, enabling, disabling, archiving and restoring tables to use the Admin Tool ADMIN ACCELERATOR command interface. The provided functionality looks great....
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Notebook can't be created - There was an unexpected error creating the notebook. Please try again.

It is very frustrating as a developer to see this type of error description that doesn't give any idea where the error might be coming from. I tried creating a notebook, with free tier as well as paid tier - both resulted in the same error. I am t...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration