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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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Uploaded files system administation parameters should be in the Content Store

These two "uploaded files" options in :Manage / Configuration / System > DataSize limit per upload of data (MB):Size limit of stored data per user (MB): are not stored in the Cognos Content Store. This is not consistent with the others administ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Rejecting rows that contain custom property validation errors during csv upload

When we want to perform inserts or updates to many business terms (eg: 1000s) we have the option to use bulk upload CSV. We would prefill the CSV with data including those defined custom properties. However, during the upload, some custom properti...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release
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Missing Prompt Functionality when using Data Modules

Merged
When creating a new report using a "Data Module" as the data source, some prompt options are missing (Select & Search / Tree). Both prompt types are used heavily in existing reporting so we are prohibited from using the functionality of Data M...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

SEL Prototype to include HIDDEN columns

Contents of Hidden columns can only be viewed by explcitly naming them in a SELECT statement. There is no problem with this but there are times when I want to a) know that a column is hidden from the column panel ADB21TC b) issue a SELECT that wil...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

System maintained MQTs for BLU MPP

We use DB2 v10.5 DPF for a Warehouse Environment (40TB Data, ~9000 Users, 40 Tsd. Reports per day). We want to migrate the database to DB2 v11.1.1.1 BLU MPP with all tables column oriented. In this case we have checked the functionality for system...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

MDM Connector for CP4D-DataStage

MDM connector will use API calls that will be directly integrated with MDM server resulting in better performance when processing large data volume. Alternate method for MDM connector is to use web service call which involves xml parsing or using ...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Add export to Excel/PDF option when you run drill-through report from the Cognos dashboard which added to user profile

When run drill-through report from Cognos dashboard using Cognos environtment, you have an option to download data to different format. If Cognos dashboard added to user profile dashboard, then this opportunity is missed. We found workaround but i...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Customisable axes in Dashboard Combo Chart

In CA Reports, it is possible to define the axes range for a combo chart. However, in dashboard, this feature is not possible. Our client would like to see the same data value range on a combo chart in a dashboard, but this is currently not possible.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Add Option to Truncate Table in Destination Stage Before Inserting Data

In many data transfer scenarios, it is essential to ensure that the destination table is empty before inserting a fresh set of data. Currently, this requires the creation of a separate pipeline to truncate the table, followed by an orchestration p...
9 months ago in StreamSets 1 Not under consideration

Replacing data in Archive Enabled Tables using LOAD

In most tables data can be replaced using LOAD RESUME NO REPLACE. In Archive Enabled Tables it cannot. We want to use LOAD REPLACE to replace the existing data instead of having to delete the current data and then load with RESUME YES. The old dat...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration