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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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Give AI real Forward-thinking cognition, while cutting training and resources needed by 90%

Here are the primary benefits LFM contributes to general AI architecture: 1. Shift from Pattern Matching to Principled Derivation Traditional AI (including most large language models) excels at finding correlations and patterns in massive datasets...
2 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Cobol Scanner should recover when *, identification Area is present in column 72 of COBOL code

At my organization, some COBOL programs in production import copybooks, and those copybooks may themselves include other copybooks. For example, the program flow might look like: olila12p.cob → DPBAUTW0.cpy → DPSINSCC.cpy However, the Manta COBOL ...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Add Support for Confluent JSON Schema in Kafka Stages

Only Avro is currently supported. Even if the data is read as text and the magic byte is removed and the text is transformed into JSON, the Kafka producer cannot serialize the JSON back to the Confluent JSON schema.
2 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Column Customization and Filtering on the Business Term Page

Our customer would like to view fields such as “Data Owner” as columns on the Business Term page and filter based on this information. Therefore, it is suggested to make the grid structure customizable (e.g., adding/removing columns, adjusting vis...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Monitoring role for CDC Subscriptions: Check Subscription Status without table level access

This idea is for DB2 for Z/OS as Source in IIDR CDC replication environment At present, the IIDR CDC Management Console and CHCCLP scripts allow status check on CDC subscriptions only if mainframe user used to connect to DB2 on Z/OS datastore has ...
2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Removing excess space from the report in PAW

Problem Statement: We have developed a dynamic active form report for users, allowing them to select parameters such as Year and Department. When users select “Total Departments”, the report dynamically adjusts and utilizes the entire available sp...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Submitted

Support for TM1 connection in SPSS and WML

Adobe is working on a use case where they would like to read data from TM1 (Planning analytics), run timeseries analysis using SPSS and Watson Machine learning and feed the result back to TM1. They are doing this work on Cloud Pak for Data on IBM ...
over 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Delivered

Dynamic MDX for selecting hierarchies

Dear IBM Product Team, We would like to request a solution that allows users to select hierarchies dynamically with MDX or with a selector widget. Currently, in MDX, it is possible to select a hierarchy using expressions like {[Dimension].[Hierarc...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Asynchronous skill execution to be enabled from Assistant web chat to App connect

There is a use case where an API built using App Connect processes bulk records. As per the current design, the API handles records sequentially, which can result in significant delays when processing large volumes of data. This delay impacts the ...
12 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Data Table enhancements

Like what is in Data Tables as a start, but there is functionality missing from them. I can't change the order of grouping, i.e. say I want the current biennium to show in the first row, no way to do this. Filter is lacking, it needs a deselect an...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Planned for future release