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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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A tool to copy/synchronize database schemas between environments.

A tool to copy/synchronize database schemas between environments. Dbschema does not help if a test environment needs a schema refresh. A tool is needed to unload the schema and then apply the schema into another environment generating with not jus...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Auto assign Data Classification

we will like to explore option to automatically assign data classification to the assets based on predefined condition. This is required as when we run the job to publish catalog, the software does not tell us which is the new tables being publish...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Request CA 11 Dashboards and Dashboard Maps support for Australian ABS Statistical Area level 1 mapping

CA11.06 supports most Australian Postcodes, however as post codes are defined for mail delivery they are not always reflective of geographic boundaries.The Statistical Local Area (SLA) is an Australian Standard Geographical Classification (ASGC) w...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

To update the data module when there is a change in the metadata

Whenever there is change in underlying Database , we need to refresh the metadata in Cognos data server and also need to update each data module manually
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Allow Category Definitions for Numeric attributes with ID formatting

Attributes when defined as numeric with ID formatting does not allow for the definition of categories. We have attributes that were historically defined as ID formatting for which we would like to define categories without changing the formatting ...
11 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Under review

Sort data calculations should not be used to determine number of passes for UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH statements where an index is used, fix misleading explain output

UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH can be used with an explain option. The explain file always shows a sort data calculation which then determines the number of table scans (passes) the database engine will undertake. These are calculated before any de...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Avoid UPDATE STATISTICS [LOW] sampling failures due to data skew

If onconfig parameter USTLOW_SAMPLE is set, sampling will be used for all UPDATE STATISTICS LOW commands. On some tables this will always or nearly always fail due to data skew, printing a message like: Warning: update statistics low using samplin...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Filter Cascading functionality in Product and sub product is expected in Cognos Analytics Dashboard

Here we have two Data items such as Product and sub-Product in this it should be as parent and child releaionship for ex if we select DDA product only DDA releated subproducts Should be visible in Prompt
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Option to disable Pin command on dashboard visualizations toolbar

Sended here by IBM support team. Some people can Pin visualizations outside the dashboard context. And this option can compromise our Data Management policies.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Allow functionality to navigate left/right in a data table using keyboard keys, specifically in the case selection page.

Currently in 5.7 you can navigate up/down/left/right in any data table using the keyboard keys however in 6.3 you can only up/down on the overall page with the keyboard, you cannot up/down/left/right in a table result. The main place we would like...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 1 Future consideration