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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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Custom widgets on BAI for saving column sorting

Despite being able to select the order of the columns for a report, this sorting is not saved and the customers need to redo it every time they need to check the report. Having a way to save this sorting would help the customers to just consume th...

Create an option to configure the user timezone

BAI uses the customer device timezone. However, when working integrated with BAW it seems that this timezone configuration is lost on BAI, therefore having a way to set this on the product end would benefit customers that can't change their device...

Connector for Cloud Pak for Data to SAP BW with SNC and Username/Password Authentication

This idea proposes the development of a native connector between IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) and SAP BW, enabling secure and efficient access to SAP BW data for analytics and AI workloads.The connector should support: SNC (Secure Network Communi...
4 days ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

Reduce the size of the initial outgoing UDP packet when a LIM restarts

The current implementation of the LIM sends a large initial UDP packet, which includes information about all the resources that are configured. When there is a network bottleneck that limits the size of UDP packets between the management host and ...
2 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 1 Submitted

IBM Db2 Bridge support on AIX and SuSE Linux (SLES)

We use Db2 LUW exlusively on the AIX and SuSE Linux platforms. It would be very advantagous and a mandatory framework conditon in our company, if Db2 Bridge will also supported on this platforms.
about 2 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 Bridge 0 Submitted

Data Virtualization's Run SQL UI is not able to restrict schemas

Risk: Data Virtualization's Run SQL UI is not able to restrict schemas Impact: Impact: Security riskDownstream Impact: Reporting team Issue: Client bank users would use the Data Virtualization Run SQL UI to do interactive querying. Client Users wo...
about 16 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

Manage/view another users scheduled report/activities without using an Analytics Administrator license

There are hundreds of scheduled reports that are managed by departmental users. if the owners of the scheduled reports are unavailable and/or the schedules need to be re-run, The Activities screen lets them see the progress of their activities in ...
about 20 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Prompt to confirm the Takeover

In certain scenarios a Tablespace wouldn't have a NORMAL state at the Standby database. Depending on how important is that Tablespace and if it would be easily get back to NORMAL state or not, the user could decide to decline the Takeover. A table...
10 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Submitted

We need the Oracle Instant Client to be supported by CDC Replication Engine.

We are requesting IBM official support for the Oracle Instant Client with CDC Replication. These items have been identified by IBM as potential exposures with the Oracle Instant Client: - No official support for CDC with Oracle Instant Client. Ora...
9 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Jupyter Notebook Templates for Spark (Cloud Pak for Data > Projects) UI validation support for extra "=" characters

Jupyter Notebook templates for Spark include the Spark Configuration field to specify extra spark configurations. Currently the UI validation expects key=value but fails when more than one equals '=' character is present. When the UI validation fa...
about 10 hours ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Submitted