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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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Flag high volatile tables as 'VOLATILE' and access those tables differently than normal tables by the query optimizer

A volatile table is defined as a table whose contents can vary from empty to very large at run time. In other words , statistics data is often out of date and may result in wrong access plans by the optimizer and subsequently may have lock the ent...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Oracle NEXTVAL function to a character column with Optim's propagation function

Recovery of a key by Oracle number distributor to a 'VARCHAR' column. The customer (COVEA, an ISP contract worth 120 million euros) would like to be able to use the NEXTVAL function to apply it directly to a column defined as a VARCHAR in a primar...
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 5 Not under consideration

TM1 as a data source from multiple BI environments

Want to be able to use a TM1 instance, in security mode 5 as a data source for multiple BI environments. In latest PMR 64563,122,000 it was mentioned we are reaching this limitation:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21657623"Current...
over 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

RESTAPI needed to update dropdown values (ENUMVAL content)

RBS will use an IBM Hosted instance of OpenPages and need to automate the content of reference data as far as possible and will use the RESTAPI to do this (eg Load FX Rates). We need to maintain the content of the Application dropdown list (enumer...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 0 Not under consideration

Create Package for Self Service Analytics in OpenPages

As Cognos Analytics appeared with OpenPages, we had high hopes of enabling our customers to do self service analytics. This was then shattered as we realized, that in order to do that, we'd have to use Framework Manager to create packages that hav...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Delivered

Bulk Data and File/Link Move should be part of core platform

There are no standard platform delivered tools to bulk move business data, files and link objects. Often data has to be moved on mass to support organisation hierarchy changes, in particular split or merge changes.Services have to be engaged to cu...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Not under consideration

Request to easily integrate custom scripts into the managed, SaaS DataStage Runtime

Our company is using Cloud Pak for Data as a managed service, which means we don't have direct access to the OpenShift platform or any of the pods or servers that run the Cloud Pak services, like the DataStage server. Occasionally with on-prem Dat...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration
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DFD should provide message handler feature.

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When customer compared two tables by Diff Stage, a warning messages were output for each difference. If there are too many differences in comparing two tables, many warning message would also be output. (ex : If there are differences in 100,000 ro...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - Use Data Modules as Source for Dynamic Cubes

Would like the ability to use Data Modules as a meta-data source for Dynanic Cube Designer.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change job submit time to include milliseconds for precision.

Job submit time to include milliseconds for precision. Instead of HH:MM:SS, make it like 12:29:05.1234. This will enable this column to be used as a unique identifier when generating data in an incremental fashion. We are extracting the RTM data a...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 4 Not under consideration