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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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,

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  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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Versioning of large files in Git

In the insurance industry, large datasets such as models that were created and trained, and graphics, are required by different processes. However, Cloud Pak for Data currently does not support Git Large File Storage (LFS). Supporting Git LFS will...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

WEX Analytical support for FileNet Containers.

For WEX (Watson Explorer Analytical), there are a set of applications required to enable communication between WEX and FileNet. On the WEX side, we install CPE Client. On the FileNet side, we install a war file (esp8services.war) on Websphere “ES ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow upload of .py files for Jupyter Notebooks into CA

When working with Jupyter notebooks within a CA envrionment there appears to be no way to re-use python code from 1 book to the next as CA restricts the types of file types that can be uploaed. This means for any functions that you would like to r...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Not under consideration

Enhancing Developer Productivity: Introducing Field Visibility Toggle to hide/unhide

The proposed feature suggests incorporating a toggle button within Watson Orchestrate's custom output/input forms and custom skills. This toggle button would enable developers to conveniently hide or reveal specific fields without resorting to the...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

CPO interactive enhancement to write or query solution

CPO interactive misses some very useful command to simply query one solution value for a given variable with its name (allowing wildcards to display more variables) Today, the only way we can query a solution is through display solution command th...
over 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Not under consideration

SSO for snowflake datasource

We have a feature built using .net to upload a file and filter the data in cognos based on the content in the file, while running the reports. This is used to apply a filter for over 100 records. This feature works based on the user login id. If w...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

ONCONFIG Parameter to Automatically tune OPTIMIZER for generic Workload (OLTP:DSS):

ONCONFIG Parameter to Automatically tune OPTIMIZER for generic Workload (OLTP:DSS): Currently the onconfig.std file is a mix of defaults for OLTP and DSS, often landing on DSS, for example OPT_COMP_IND , OPT_SEEK_FACTOR , OPT_GOAL, etc. With the d...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

To have a feature to update multiple ETLs at once thru DataStage designer interface

The idea is to have an additional tool or feature to allow multiple updates of similar changes to ETLs at once. This has to be done through DataStage interface. As IBM support has confirmed, 'there is no supported way of doing it' currently. Curre...
over 6 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

A way can backup and restore pureScale instance

Currently an user is running a pureScale cluster, when all of the SAN disks(including the disk where instance path is on) were corrupted, he has to do the following to recovery the cluster: 1) replacing the corrupted disks 2) re-install and setup ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 2 Not under consideration

Build SQL Statement with host variables

Let’s review this scenario. You just implemented a new COBOL program into production. But some users are not getting the data they expected. You finally realize an SQL statement you are running is not returning any rows. You’re sure the statement ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Not under consideration