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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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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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SQL Data Insights - Silent/ Batch execution of the installationscript sqldi.sh

The installation of the SQL DI web application is accomplished through an installation script in an interactive bash session. Here, for each prompt, the user has to respond by either entering requested information or accepting the default. T...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow pending alter to convert multi table tablespaces to PBG

As with other conversions now supported, we are requesting the ability to convert multi table tablespaces (either simple or segmented) to UTS PBG tablespaces via a pending alter and an online reorg to materialize the pending changes. We have many ...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules

Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules only to FM packages. This seems like a severe limitation given that Data Sets and Data Modules are being pushed as one of the main new features in Cognos 11
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Support for Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse and SQL Database

Provide official support for the following Microsoft Azure solutions. 1. Azure SQL Datwarehouse as a DQM data sourcehttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-data-warehouse/ 2. Azure SQL Database as a content store database.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow the Schema Generator to be able to use Complex Data Types for Parquet and Avro

The schema generator currently is only able to generate basic schema. For example a map with mixed data types is considered complex and will cause an error: { "answers":{ "field1": "somestring", "field2": 123 } } SCHEMA_GEN_0007 - Map '/answer...
11 months ago in StreamSets 0

Want the ability to mass replace Custom attribute at an asset level.

Ability to find and replace custom attribute. For example when a Data Steward leaves the company we need the ability to find the Data Steward: Custom attribute with the current name and replace it with the name of the new Data Steward.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Configurable resource requirement of PMML deployment

Since many customers may have a separate data science team for the model building work, while the deployment work will be done by the system/platform admin team. Therefore it would be better for the system admin team to control the resource requir...
almost 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Allow Timestamp Functions/Operations on Data Flows

We are struggling to get data from remote connections/servers for a determined period of time. We can make some calculations with other data types, but not with timestamps. We end up retrieving massive amount of data into our cloud environment, im...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 3 Not under consideration

Support Disaster Recover plans for Manta standalone

Add features or documentation on how IBM Manta standalone can be deployed with disaster recovery so that Manta can be recovered. Manta standalone is deployed by users on their infrastructure so Manta software may not support DR. However the PLAN o...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Not under consideration

Regular expressions in calculated fields

For some raw-data fields like res_req or effective_res_req in the job_acct index, it is right now not possible to extract single parameters like the mem-parameter in the rusage section. This could be achieved by supporting regular expressions (reg...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Planned for future release