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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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Data Quality Rule: Preview of records without output table

Current behaviour: In order to see a preview of all records / failing records / or passing records, I need to define always an output table.Only with this information IBM knows what to display (columns, variables, metrics, etc.).Without configurin...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Planned for future release

Improve Error Logging & Line Number Traceability in SAS connector Parsing

Problem Statement Currently, when parsing errors occur in the Manta SAS Connector, the logs do not provide sufficient details about the root cause. For Example The error message often lacks the specific SAS code line number and the file name whe...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Planned for future release

Improvements to Custom Controls

The native custom control system makes integrating custom elements a great deal easier, but there are a few areas for improvement. Defined drop zones on the pageI would love to be able to define drop zones similar to other Cognos objects like grap...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

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

DMC requirement for improved reporting of metric data for PureScale members

In the current DMC release, DMC aggregates resource usage (for example, CPU) for all members of PureScale connections. The request is to improve DMC to show monitoring metrics values per member with the ability to drill down per database connectio...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 3 Planned for future release

Configurable table header fields

Currently, the property display in tables are static and are not always the most interesting one for users. It would be good to be able to select and configure the properties display in the main table, this would allow quick access to essential in...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Ability to hide pinned On Demand Toolbar via URL parameters

When opening reports via hyperlink, I want to be able to display or hide the On Demand Toolbar with a URL parameter. Currently this can only be done from within the Report properties, but I want to be able to toggle it dynamically.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Please add rowspan and colspan as conditional style properties in list and crosstab cells

There are many times where I need to hide or show specific cells in crosstabs or lists. If I were to hide cells in the crosstab rows, other cells may cause the entire table to deform. This can be replicated quite easily by having Node 1 | Node 2--...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

FTS to support result set more than 10000 entires

Issue description: We have configured Free text search in Staging Environment and if we query using Free text search and query is expected to return more than 10000 entries but still FTS search returns 10000 entries. We would like to understand if...
2 months ago in Product Master 0 Planned for future release

Option to rename column headers in Dashboard object table

We use a table to display a Top 5 list based on a count on a date field. We would like to rename the column header "Date of Login (Timestamp)" to somethin more meaningful, as this column contains a count value. This is not possible.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release