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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,

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  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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Multiple file import on CC Web

A user can currently select and import multiple flatfiles within Controller Classic, thus loading multiple company files in one action. In contrast, Controller Web restricts file import to a single file import. Can Web be updated to accept multipl...
about 2 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Integration with Spectrum Scale object storage

IBM is involved in implementing data integration solution for State Bank of India using DataStage (version 11.7) and Spectrum Scale (version 5.05). DataStage is supposed to read / write object storage data hosted in Spectrum Scale using Swift prot...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

Better user error on termination of runaway DQM query

We want to use Cognos Analytics dashboards for ad hoc data exploration, but we need to put limits on query run time so that one user doesn't monopolize DBMS resources. The Framework Manager governor Query Execution Time Limit does not apply to dyn...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable routing of dashboards based on data modules, the same way as reports do

When responsible for a large multi-server installation consisting of multiple dispatchers, the Cognos Analytics administrator wants control of which servers are being used for processing requests. Currently, routing rules based on data tags can be...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Snowflake CDC

Snowflake is central part of our ecosystem and multiple producers and consumer components are exchanging data through it. The lack of CDC support for snowflake table means we'll have to configure a poll at certain duration which will incur cost - ...
about 1 year ago in StreamSets 0 Not under consideration

Automatically trim leading and trailing spaces from Variable Names

A colleague was struggling with getting a Time Series model to work. The issue turned out to be that there were leading and trailing spaces on the target variable name. I have seen this happen with client data in the past. The error message that M...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Delivered

Cognos Analytics New Report - Default Behaviour like Analysis Studio (Cubes)

We have many business users transitioning from Analysis Studio and would like the product defaults for "Report" to be similar to that tool, especially for dimensional data sources. Currently we have to manually set:- View settings -> check “Sho...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

NCOS support for GCP

None of the Google Cloud's object storage is supported for customers to move cold data onto a partitioned table. That makes hosting a db2warehouse on Google Cloud very expensive and cost prohibitive. Need native support for GCP
7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Future consideration

Support for NCOS on Db2 transactional (row tables)

Customers ( Like Zebra ) running on cloud (IAAS ) are incurring huge block storage costs. They can partition and move cold data to object storage and still be queryable from SQL engine.
7 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Under review

Bulk Apply R/Y/G Score Thresholds to Multiple Items in Cognos Administration

Currently, Cognos Analytics Administrators must manually set Red/Yellow/Green (R/Y/G) score thresholds (such as Success Percentage, Average Response Time, etc.) for each dispatcher, data source, and other monitored items individually. There is no ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration