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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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Missing support for Microsoft SQL server 2025

When will SQL Server 2025 be supported as Content Server or Data Source? As of today SQL server 2022 is most recent listed in clarity reports. Customers upgrading to most recent Windows environments are asking for SQL 2025 support.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Planned for future release

Enable Custom SQL for AWS Redshift connector

Problem statement: For all our ETL transformations across NYL, we use custom SQL to extract the data. Workaround in POC: We are using JDBC connector to read data from Redshift Database Benefits/values: Using native redshift connector wi...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 3

ICP4D Should remove the connection reference for catalog assets/Deleted the referenced assets from catalog and project if the connection deleted from platform connection.

We are getting connection id details for catalog data asset in v3 API response but unable to find the connection details. Expectation: 1. ICP4D Should remove the connection reference for catalog assets if the connection deleted from platform conne...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data 2 Under review

Allow for UNLOAD SHRLEVEL CHANGE and REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE to be compatible wen executing on the same partition

We are running very busy environmenet with IDAA being frequently refreshed by loader with increamnts of inserted records. In addition, we are using the DB2 automated housekeeping approach with the DSNACCOX stored proc implmentation to manage and t...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Delivered

Make Watson Analytics for Social Media data available in Cognos Analytics

It would be great to be able to use the Social Media data currently available in Watson Analytics for Social Media, as a data source in Cognos Analytics.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Option to retrieve table data extracted by WDU

Expose an option in the WxO Document Processing skill to request the table data extracted by WDU. The table data should be easy to consume, for example, CSV formatted data.
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 4 Delivered

Flexible Data Replication Across IBM Cloud Pak for Data Clusters for watsonx.data as target

Background: As of now, IBM Data replication has no restrictions to be deployed on specific cluster to replicate data from various sources to targets available, however for users who wants to replicate data using watsonx.data presto connector, the ...
10 months ago in Data Replication for Cloud Pak for Data 1 Submitted

Blockchain integration as a data source

Would like to see integration of Blockchain as a data source in Cognos Analytics. Currently the only way to tap into it from cognos is to export to a relational data source then use it as a static which isn't desirable. Outside of that we have to ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Onboard custom real time detector on watsonx.ai+gov

A user should be able to configure a custom guardrail / real time detector on a Prompt Template (PTA) deployment. Context A client does generative AI and enforce governance. As a consequence: The only way to consume a model in Production is throug...
7 months ago in watsonx.governance 2 Planned for future release

Simplified Single IP for Audit logging service when using multiple NICs

Problem Statement: When servers have multiple network adapter cards, Cognos audit is logged as a mix of both the IPs. This makes it difficult for customers to analyze audit data and there is a slight chance that you might miss the data unless you ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration