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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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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.

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Enable use of package-based filters employing macros in data modules

There are already several RFEs submitted that request the ability to use package query subjects with prompt macros in dashboards. The purpose of this request is to extend those in two ways. 1. We would like to be able to use query subjects contain...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make field descriptions and screen tips also available for Analytics Users

We get more and more questions on the visibility of data lineage and data dictionary entries of data items in packages and data modules for analytics users for compliancy reasons. At this moment an author can see the description and screen tip of ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Use JPG pictures from database in Report Studio Reports

We have to print pictures in Report Studio Reports. The only data source for the Image Control in Report Studio is a URL SOURCE. We have many JPEG pictures stored in a database and want use these pictures in Report Studio reports. Please add to th...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Cloud Pak for Data platform and services inherit underlying OpenShift Proxy settings

Cloud Pak for Data (and all Cloud Paks) deployed within OpenShift On-Premises Connected (non-air-gapped) clusters are often behind an HTTP PROXY. When installing the OpenShift Cluster, the HTTP PROXY variables (http_proxy, https_proxy, no_proxy) a...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Delivered

Package to Data Module

Could IBM provide a tool or a way to easily convert an existing Cognos Package as a Data Module? This will help with faster adoption as we would not need to manually re-create a FM model in Data Modules.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When importing data from a CSV file using update the original asset allow to only modify the columns present in the file and preserve as they were

In a catalog, when assigning terms to columns "data asset" through the import of a CSV file, then current behaviour forces you that all columns if a table exist in the file being imported. For example if a table contains 9 column and I want to ass...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Better info -904 Dynamic SQL

In Case TS018158208 we described Our clients gets due a exchange: EXCHANGE DATA BETWEEN TABLE <owner>.<tablename> AND <owner>.<tablename-CLONE>; SQLERROR ON EXCHANGE COMMAND, EXECUTE FUNCTION RESULT OF SQL STATEMENT: DSNT40...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Enable log shipping for db2diag.log. Feature is already available for db2audit log

Customers embracing db2u would like to have near real time update to db2diag log as part of data their data observability solutions like elastic and splunk
8 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Remove _en-us suffix when sending reports in Event Studio

I'm sending reports in excel format to a system to automatically load the data. However, the system does not like the suffix _en-us, specifically the dash.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The data amount of the SPSS Modeler's installation package is large

Since the amount of data of the installation package is large, it takes time to transfer the data when providing the user.Also, My Appliacation's installer development is difficult due to the large amount of data.
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0