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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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  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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UNION operation in Data Refinery

UNION operation should be implemented into "CP4D" like as a "CP4D as a Service". For the data preparation, some other tools can use UNION operation but CP4D can't. This is one of the factor customer think insufficient.
about 5 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Delivered

Option for replacing/updating packages without breaking existing usages of the package when importing content.

There is need to update a package and a Dashboard (only these two objects in a big folder structure) in a PROD-Environment by moving, copying or migrating from a DEV-Environment. The updated package is used in many more Dashboards and Reports, but...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Accessing Dataconnector in conductor using python from GPU server

Hello Team, we have setup a connector in GPU to access HDFS from our CPU cluster. However, i am able to access the file in HDFS using spark but not using python. I would like to understand how to access HDFS using python commands. Connector Name: ...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Include Graphframes Spark package in CPD

Graphframes package for Spark provides the capabilities of both the GraphX and the Spark DataFrames. The recent Apache Spark 3.0 release has several enhancements with respect to the features enablement and performance, especially, for the Spark Da...
about 5 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Start a histogram positioned in the LAST date

If the histogram represents the daily evolution, it would be good the chart to start with the last date selected as the data within the chart is dynamically changing every day, adding a new date. So although one can sort the date asscending or des...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support NTLM authentication for API calls using Hierarchial stage or Web services Client within DataStage

As part of our data acquisition we are acquiring data from MDS Microsoft API and it needs NTLM authentication to connect to the API before the data can be acquired using datastage
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

SPSS - Exadat Support for the SPSS Products v20-23

Need an ODBC connection for Exadata. SPSS Support is stating that the connection to Exadata is not certified/supported by IBM. This will place a hard stop on the business partners if they are not able to utilize the SPSS product with the data that...
over 10 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Delivered

Event Studio: Unable to drop Data items into email table

Unable to drop a data item into a table of an Email body. Always drops outside box
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Metadata Search Results from a Cognos Package to be added to a PAX Exploration

PAX allows one to search for specific members. if the data source is TM1/PA, then the user can drag the results into an Exploration. If the data source is a Cognos Analytics package, the user cannot drag the results into their crosstab. This en...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Tighter control on data combination

Many limited and statistically de-ID datasets limit what data can it be combined with, for fear of increasing re-identificaiton risk.
over 5 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio on Cloud 0 Not under consideration