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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.

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.

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Improvement of Report Functionality in PAFE for Enhanced Data Analysis and User Productivity

Currently, users face limitations in their report, which hampers productivity and the ability to analyze data effectively. Issue is When a value is entered in "As Value Mode" and the formula is overwritten, the formula will not reappear in that re...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted
117 VOTE

Ability to refresh prompts of an embedded report if dashboard filter(s) change / common prompting model

Our dashboards created for IBM sales leadership often have both native dashboard views and embedded/iframe'ed reports when it is needed for better data visualization. Embedded report prompts are hard-coded in a URL pointing to a report. If a user ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Future consideration

Allow ALTER TABLE xxx COLUMN yyy SET NOT NULL

The ability to change nearly everything about a column is really cool in Db2. Sadly, the one thing that you cannot easily change is the NULLability of any given column. This is definitely a requirement all over the place and currently can only be ...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Ability to flush or clean up catalog cache

Larger catalog-related changes, like revoking privileges from many users at the same time, are also updating the catalog cache. The cache may hold invalidated or "orphaned" entries. Those entries are only removed in an asynchronous fashion. Until ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Rendering of rich media: images & videos

Rich media formats for content presentations, viz. images, videos, interactive charts, tables [see ideas for tables and charts] Making insights easier to understand and act upon. Instead of lengthy reports, users will receive clear summaries b...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 6 Delivered

Access to information ingested with Manta for reporting purposes (e.g. "which of the 15k database columns in our scope have upstream lineage)

The information provided by Manta is not only for users utilizing the UI. We have a heavy reporting machinery checking if the content satisfies the data governance requirements for key assets. That means that we need to be able to retrieve lineage...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

REORG DISCARD for RTS history tables

The history data collected in SYSTABSPACESTATS_H and SYSIXSPACESTATSS_H are filled so quickly and causes huge impact on catalog and directory storage group. However the only maintenance mechanism available at the moment is delete command with wher...
8 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Prompt user that they will loose their data when clicking outside the window

During my testing of job creation from a data quality rule, I noticed that the modal window automatically closes when you click outside of it, specifically when clicking on the greyed bars on either side without advising you that the modal popup w...
13 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Developer & User Experience Enhancements

Auto-Prompt Engineering A built-in assistant that: Generates optimized prompts Suggests improvements Tests variations Benchmarks responses This helps new users adopt GenAI faster. UI for Complex Multi-Step Workflows Drag-and-drop interface for: Pi...
13 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

GPU support for embedding models in watsonx.ai SW

Currently, embedding models are deployed using CPU resources, which leads to slower processing times and increased latency when handling large-scale data. This RFE proposes the implementation of GPU support for embedding model deployments. The enh...
8 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Delivered