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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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Improvements to the Jobs dashboard, including grouping by folder in a single click show the Jobs execution information

We are entering a migration from DataStage 11.7 to DataStage Anywhere, control plane in IBM Cloud and Data Place in OCI/On Premise instances. Improvements to the Jobs dashboard, including grouping by folder in a single click show the Jobs executio...
30 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Orchestrator connection - Test connection must check that API creds are valid for the organization

This is related to the : Support Case TS020495554: "Connection is successful using API Credential from another Organization", Engineering intervention: INT-3683. Please check the attachment for detailed steps to reproduce the issue. Issue: Humana ...
9 days ago in StreamSets 4 Not under consideration

PAW: Allow formatting of picklist arrow colour in cell

We are bound by string colour guidelines, and have several picklist selectors in a cube and are unable to see the blue picklist arrow. It would be great to have the option to select the arrow colour to show the contrast See attached - unable to se...
9 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Governing image-based prompts in watsonx.governance

It would be highly valuable if watsonx.governance could support use cases by allowing images to be seamlessly integrated into prompt templates and deployments, in the same way text is currently handled. This capability would enable organizations t...
about 2 months ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted

Assume IAM Role instead of using IAM Access Key and Secret (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, follows a strict security policy based on the principle of least privilege, which requires all authentication and authorization operations to be carried out through IAM Roles, rather than using IAM Access Key and Secret pairs, wh...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

PAW Action Button Prompt and Response Parameters

The recent enhancements have made action buttons in PAW powerful, but they still lack 2 key pieces of functionality that are available in PAfE and Websheets. The ability to prompt a user if they are sure they want to run a process (Confirmation)...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Alerts/Notifications

Administrators and users should be able to set alerts/notifications that are based on data changes. They s/b able to do this from within the reporting and dashboarding UI's as business requirements demand. You are allowed to set conditional format...
22 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted

Hide Public Filters

There should be a way to hide public filters from a grid view. Filters used in task views do not always need to be displayed to a user so these should have the option to be hidden. Controlled via a group access rather than individual user or enabl...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

Add a tool to edit Report XML directly

There are a ton of times where editing an object XML is faster and easier than using the GUI. Not to mention times where you simply can't do what you need via the GUI (more advanced styles in classes for example). An inbuilt tool to edit XML would...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Copy/Pasting an object should not create copies of dependencies if they already exist in the target report

When copying objects across reports all associated objects are copied along with it, even if the target report has the same items. This greatly bloats reports, especially when there are many conditional styles and query items. I would expect the b...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted