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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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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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Manta COBOL scanner support to ignore the comments between REMARKS and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION

Why is it useful? We have some legacy COBOL files that errors out with parsing error since it follows a different coding pattern for comments. The comments are included between REMARKS. and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION in COBOL program. Currently, Manta d...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

Unhide Synonyms from Lineage

A common pattern in data warehouses, especially with DB2, is to use Synonyms (DB2 calls those Aliases) to allow tables to be updated without impacting running queries and data integration processes or causing wrong/partial data to be displayed. Un...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration

-DISPLAY PROCEDURE - Show All Stored Procedure Types

Show Native Stored Procedures in -DIS PROC regardless of DEBUG mode. The existing limitation becomes a monitoring showstopper as more and more Native SQL SPs are utilized in Production.
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Provide a configuration option to hide individual input and output fields displayed during tool execution.

At present, all inputs and outputs from tool execution are displayed to the user without filtering. This can include sensitive information such as API keys or authentication credentials that should not be exposed. To address this, we request the f...
24 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Needs more information

Db2 Developer Extension - Add support to execute external COBOL stored procedures from catalog list, save input parameters and reload saved values as well as generating DDL and dropping the stored procedure

Application Developers use Data Source Explorer in Data Studio to display external COBOL stored procedures from the db2 catalog. They right click and get options to run the stored procedure after inputting values, generate the DDL and can also dro...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Under review

Colour consistency should be definable across all objects, not just within a single dashboard. And we should have attributes on members, not just data items.

Colour consistency is a great feature, ensuring that within a single dashboard all visualisations will show a member with the same colour. But what about if you have a suite of dashboards? What about if you have reports? A user would want the same...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Chat Utterance Display – Multiline Input Not Rendered Properly

Problem: When a user submits a message containing multiple lines (e.g., using line breaks), the echoed output (utterance) is not displayed as multiple lines. Current Behavior: The utterance appears in a constrained single-line view or a scrollable...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Delivered
116 VOTE

Render Cognos maps in PDF report format

Currently (CA 11.0.7), maps included as a visualization in a report can only be rendered when report is run in HTML format. If the report is run in any other format (i.e. PDF, Excel, CSV..) the maps will never be rendered (never displayed) Please ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Drive Explorer - Sort by File Type should sort by file type text, not ascii character codes

When sorting by file type in Drive Explorer, if sorted ascending, RUX files appear before cho and all other lower case file types. I opened a ticket and was told this is because the sort is done by ascii character code. This defeats the purpose of...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Error Log for Processes should open in own tab rather than a pop up

Currently when you view Error Logs for Processes it only displays in a pop up window. If you have a couple of errors to investigate you have to keep selecting it. It would be more benefical if it were to open in a tab similar to the way that the S...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered