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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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RESTORE SYSTEM should support log apply across DSN1COPY and vendor utilities

RESTORE SYSTEM can fail in log apply when there was a DSN1COPY or vendor utility within the log apply range. This occurs because RESTORE SYSTEM uses pageset control log records to determine that a LOG NO utility had been run, and neither DSN1COPY ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics Word Cloud to break sentences into words

We often want to use a free format data entry field to build a word cloud. For example if I had four rows of data that looked like: "Went to a meeting by car""Attended a meeting""Pool Car""Flight to internal meeting" And I created a word cloud I w...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Understanding usage of catalog assets by business users interacting with the catalog

It would be good to understand if our cataloged assets are actually being used by business users. Which Assets are being used more than others. This would allow us to plan for future resource allocation and what we need to keep in our catalog vs w...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal BigDecimals are a crucial datatype when handling Finance data

Enable methods to view simplified data lineage instead of complex web-like visualizations

Implement an option to view simplified data lineage by default, as an alternative to current complex, spider-web-style visualization. This will improve usability and clarity for users seeking high-level lineage insights. We are requesting an enhan...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Planned for future release

Removing default value from Primary Caused Business Unit in OpenPages LEE App in Cloud Pak for Data

Since the Business Unit is already selected, users proceed to fill out the remaining fields. However, upon form submission, a message prompts them to change the Business Unit, which disrupts the user experience. We cannot default to a different Bu...
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Planned for future release

Allow REST queries to be run asynchronously

Currently when using CADataConnector.read_data() to access data in Notebooks, there is a hard limit of 5 minutes. After this, the request will fail. This is caused by a timeout of 5 minutes on all REST queries. Please allow users to run REST queri...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Workflow for metadata enrichment

During metadata enrichment we need a workflow driven process to monitor and send notification of the steps. This is needed when there is more than one person working on the enrichment. When a term or data class is assigned or removed other editors...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

CP4D handling of users which are no longer authorized

If a Cloud Pak for Data user is no longer able to logon (removed from a AD group that is mapped to CPD group) then the user record in "Access control" should be marked as deleted. It should no longer be possible to authorize this user to any CPD s...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Future consideration

Enhancement in Manta Orchestration API

Creating this request for the follow up the IBM case : TS018934986 We need below enhancement in Manta Orchestration API. please find below limitations that were noted while using fetch workflow executions API from Manta While using public API from...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted