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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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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.

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Enable XLSX format for FastMap Export

FastMap supports XLSX format for importing data, but export currently only supports XLS format. Customers are starting to deprecate XLS, and need a way to also configure the OpenPages export to use XLSX format. Alternatively they need to disable t...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 5 Delivered

Full support for aggregate function with DISTINCT in OLAP SPECIFICATION

Use of DISTINCT with e.g. COUNT function in OLAP specification (PARTITION BY clause) returns error SQL0441N (SQLCODE -441). Due to the fact that Db2 does NOT support the use of DISTINCT option in such cases, we have a major impact with COGNOS gene...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Cloud Pak for Data - Watson Pipelines - Add Undostack as a drop down list

Currently in a Watson Pipeline if you want to undo 5 Steps, then you have to 1: know how many steps to go back 2: click on the undo button n times As discussed with the dev team, this should be improved to offer an arrow-down next to the undo/redo...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

SFTP: Need the ability to use Keys

Our Security department requires a SSH key to be used rather than a SFTP connection to pull data from IBM WatsonX.gov. This is currently not supported by the product. IBM needs to update their platform to use SSH key so we can properly pull data.
about 2 months ago in AI Governance 0 Submitted

export and import function on DB2ZAI SQL optimization AP recommendation

Hello, Here is an idea on export and import function on DB2ZAI SQL optimization AP recommendation. it's mostly on static packages. Reason behind is to test AP recommendation in lower environment before the real usage in production. By explain or e...
5 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

Simplify Data Quality (DQ) Violation Management by removing the need for a dedicated database table for storing DQ violations.

Currently, managing Metadata Enrichment DQ violations requires users to create and maintain a separate table in an external database, which complicates the process and adds unnecessary overhead. While CP4D has the capability to access DQ violation...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Ability to link Governance Rules to Data Quality Rules from Governance Rule side

Currently in IKC the mapping between Governance Rule and Data Quality rule can only be done from Data Quality rule side. This would require edit right to Data Quality Rules for business users in production which I'm not too keen to grant. So it wo...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Planned for future release

Enhance grid-update mode in PAW to also defer recalculation after copy-paste-operation

In PAW you have an option to "defer recalculation" in the grid-update mode. This works for normal data entry and selection from picklists. However, it does not work for copy-paste operations. When users use copy-paste the exploration gets recalcul...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

The ability to create custom URLs that retrieves data from AIOps to be used in the custom cards

When creating new custom cards with a dynamic set of data you use the data_url attribute to provide the custom card with a URL that retrieves data from AIOps components (Alerts, Incedints, Resource management, etc..) and can't use external URL for...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

wx.ai Synthetic Data - Allow the user to insert formulas and code to generate synthetic data

Currently, wx.ai Synthetic Data works with the statistical model identified in the source column and generates the data according to the identified pattern without allowing customization by the user. For example, if the column contains numbers the...
over 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review