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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.

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.

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Create from existing data Tile - Present content view with folder navigation.

When using the 'Create' tile from the homepage of Cognos Analytics and then selecting to create a report using existing data. Currently the user is presented with a long list of data sets, data modules and packages that they have access to. The co...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Future consideration

Improve Admin logging level in Cognos logs to capture all the events

Admin activity applies to all the users who use the UI. A user in the context of this deliverable is anybody that uses the application including other teams and the application team themselves. Admin activity applies to the application code unique...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

SSH/SFTP Server for PVC Filetransfers

We would like to have the ability to run a ssh/sftp server, to be able to easily upload and download files from/to cloud pak for data. Most of our current processes are scheduled with IWS and there are simple shell file copys implemented. Reasons:...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

PAW Action Button ability to get parameters from selectors

From the last demonstration that I have seen of 2.0.6 PAW is only able to prompt for parameters to a TI process at the time that you click on the Action Button. This is not how most systems are designed. Users will typically make selections in the...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 8 Delivered
137 VOTE

export data from tables out of a backup image

Introduce a new parameter to the export utility to be able to export data from a table that is in a backup image.This functionality is especially useful for data extraction without touching/impacting the source system
almost 9 years ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

QA and profiling Business Terms

We would like to define and apply data quality rules (e.g., completeness, uniqueness, and consistency) to governance artifacts, and more specifically glossary/business terms in CP4D. This would include: identifying and tracking data quality issu...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

SQL0659N to supply relevant data

When a query fails with SQL0659 ("Maximum size of a table object has been exceeded") there is no indication of which object is at fault. In the execution I am examining there is also nothing relevant in the diagnostic log. An indication in the err...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Submitted

Request to introduce a new feature - Batch RDV Delete

Please refer to the support case for more details. Some operations may take longer to complete due to the data volume involved. Until such an operation is finished, its future effect is not yet presented by UI. That is because the Glossary has a d...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Store and Retrieve Passwords in Credential Manager

Request: Enable PowerShell scripts and Python executables (e.g., .exe created via pyinstaller) to securely access the Windows Credential Manager — or its Linux equivalent — within the Planning Analytics on Cloud (PAoC) environment. Purpose: Thi...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Service permissions

In the past we had different User Groups using a tool. for Example one group was using datastage and another one the knowledge catalog. It was easy to say if someone is allowed to use a toolstack, because you just need to give them a permission. E...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review