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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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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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Facility to manage access by parametrized url on an unauthorized folder

If a user accesses from a third-party portal via a Cognos parameterized url on a Cognos folder to which he does not have rights,the native cognos home screen is displayed with this error message :"Unable to load requested view. Displaying home vie...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support all tool interactions in 3rd-party channels

Third party channels do not support form interactions and most pre-built skills tools + all skill flows/workflows are form-based today.
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

Support for importing 3rd party agents to host directly in Orchestrate runtime

Our team has built agents outside of WxO using frameworks like LangGraph. We are looking to import them into Orchestrate to extend the scope of our project. Currently, the product supports integration only through "External agents" option, which r...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Planned for future release

Keep 3rd Party Software Current

We have discovered 2 third party products that run inside DSM that were not the current version. One was running with an expired date. Apache Derby and Websphere Liberty software were found to be running old release levels that are not being updat...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Aliases and Attributes to be available in the cube viewer

In some models we have various Aliases to cater to 3rd party system naming or alternate product codes. Clients want to see the principal name/description based on a selected alias but also want to add an additional Alias(es) to see an alternate na...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

HADR: Enable ROS for all LOBs

At a customer site we tried to use read on standby for reporting. That way we hoped to be able to redirect the load which is caused by reporting away from the operational DB and machine. Test failed because of some LOB-columns which couldn't be al...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Remove the need to have cluster admin privileges for installation of our CP4D and Components

We have lots of clients who do not have / nor are they allowed to have cluster admin privileges. They must request to their OCP and security teams to get access to these rights. Some clients are unable to get these rights from their teams. IBM nee...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

All Voice Prompts Should Be Configurable to Allow Barge-In as Needed

This will allow customers to provide a valid response at any time without waiting for the entire prompt to play. Example: "Are you the shipper, receiver, or third party for this package?" If the caller is the shipper or receiver, they should be ab...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 1 Not under consideration

Be omnipresent alongside external tools: UI automation / contextual awareness

UI automation and contextual awareness - to navigate and collaborate with third party applications [continuation of https://watson-orchestrate.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/LSABER-I-985 which provides the possibility to embed wxO as a plug-in into a browner...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Under review

Proposal for an Official CPLEX R Package for Seamless RStudio Integration

I’d like to suggest that IBM develop and maintain an official R package for the CPLEX solver. Today, R users must rely on a handful of hard-to-install third-party libraries, whereas competitors like Gurobi ship a polished “gurobi” package that ins...
4 months ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted