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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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Deploying projects from development to production with object mapping

When importing projects from development to production environments, you can map objects to be imported, especially if their names differ between environments. This will ensure a seamless deployment and reduce manual adjustments. Also consider ver...
28 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

Unify data quality rules per table into a single job

When quality rules are created, a separate DataStage job is generated for each table column. For a table with 100 columns requiring quality analysis, this results in 100 individually processed jobs. Bradesco had implemented a workaround where, aft...
28 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

DCAT-AP exchange format for European customers

Hi, DCAT-AP is mandatory on european public customers is order to interchange catalog / asset information. https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-3/ . It's should be a huge accelerator to have it on IKC or at least on Knowledge accelerator, in order to ...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

Update the view with multiple hierarchies and MDX

Hello Product Management Team, Based on documentation, there is no direct built in functionality to dynamically update a views MDX based on a selection cell within a book in PAW. The StrToSet function can be used to dynamically define sets in MDX,...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Needs more information

Performance improvement for expression

Add one column with STATIC expression on target, but got long processing time (delay) on apply side. Would like to know the reason why. New Expression:Expression: ‘MES1’ -> site_cd Existing expression looks like as:CASE WHEN :SYS_CD is NULL the...

[Customer-HCA-Parallon] Projects Feature: Project wise infrastructure usage metering

HCA plans to separate their current user into project teams and are looking forward to the feature : https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SSETS-I-222 , as they intend to share infrastructure resources among projects. As such, they are also looking for proj...
21 days ago in StreamSets 2 Needs more information

Bring back Paste button on right-click menu

After we upgrade PA from 2.0 to 2.1, the users notice that the Paste button on right-click menu is missing. Although the Ctrl+V keyboard shortcut works, the business users prefer to use the Paste button on right-click menu since their left hand mi...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Needs more information

new column alteration feature: enable SET GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP

Use Case: A table is created with the following column definition: TECHTIMESTAMP GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP The clients use the table (already contains data records), so that values have already been generated ...
8 months ago in Db2 2 Needs more information

Trim blanks from 60 byte statement text in IFCID 316

IFCID 316 contains only the first 60 bytes of the SQL text. Some programs may, for readability, include lots of blank spaces around SQL text. In extreme cases (python scripts) the text is preceded by a line of blanks. In these cases the 60 bytes o...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Needs more information

Support for Oracle datatype sdo_geometry in CDC

We are a railway infrastructur provider and building our realtime digital twin. For this we need very often geological position information for trains or railway infrastructure. We use IBM CDC to integrate many of our Oracle systems realtime and w...
29 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Needs more information