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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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Need an api for updating Metadata Enrichment results - specific fields

We request the development of a custom POST API to streamline our processes. We couldn’t find an existing API that meets our requirements, and the current API options in the CP4D, create significant development overhead for our team. Below is our ...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Planning Analytics Workspace: Replace URL path option for images in books

Ease and risk reduction when it is necessary to change images on several screens and books at the same time (currently it is necessary to enter image by image and change manually). It could be an option in admin with replace (FROM/TO) that would s...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enable/disable data preview at connection level

In CP4D platform connection level there must be a setting to enable/disable data preview. Disabling data preview at connection level will be global and block data preview at any component, except Data Stage, of CP4D and any object (table, view, SQ...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Enhancing Patch Review Efficiency through WCA Model Integration

Objective: Introduce a review capability within WCA that enables developers to assess code patches with contextual clarity, leveraging model-driven insights to improve traceability, understanding, and decision-making. Rationale: Traditional patch ...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Submitted

IKC administrator role need to get super privileges' to control all the components

Need a super admin privileges' for the CP4D platform admin users to control all the components of the IKC - Glossary, Catalog, Projects, Connections Due to missing proper access, now facing the challenge when business report some issue with their ...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Under review

Make SET TENANT available in connect procedure

The new Db2 release 12.1 provides the namespace isolation via tenant feature. Default is the SYSTEM tenant. The tenant feature is ideal to replace small personal databases for developers where many may have the same sets of tables and also in the ...
11 months ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

Improve Data Transfer between Different TM1 Servers

TM1 does not a user friendly and easy mechanism to transfer data between different TM1 servers. Currently there are 2 options, but none of them can be properly used: 1 - Use Replication to transfer and synchronize data from different TM1 servers: ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

A Dedicated Prompt Page for Dashboards - Let's face it, the banner filters are limited

All Cognos Analytics Dashboard users would benefit from this change, but here is my personal experience as a Senior Cognos Developer: 1. Cognos end users within my organisation have started using other apps like Power BI, instead of Cognos Analyti...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Automating Watsonx.ai installation experience

Why It's Useful: Automating the installation process reduces barriers to entry and onboarding for non-IBMers, SMEs, and new developers. This simplifies the user experience, leading to a more accessible product. Additionally, automation can lower c...
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

PAW : Links between books

For describing the issue, we’ll use two books that we’ll name Book A and Book B. Book A contains a navigation button to Book B. Let’s take Production environment where Books A and B are in Shared folder. I’d like to update Book B with another one ...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered