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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Enable federation between db2 luw to SQLMI (AZURE)

Some of our Sybase data sources moved to SQLMI (AZURE) when we setup federation from db2luw to SQLMI (similar to sql server) its not working
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

Automatic activation of accounting for the SIPN FIN and FMT FIN services.

The manual procedure described in "System Administration Guide" for "Collecting accounting data for the SIPN FIN and FMT FIN services" is prone to be forgotten or overseen and should be better replaced by an automatic procedure like that applying ...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Bulk update for category management

It takes at least 7 mouse clicks to change the primary category for an governance asset. It would be more efficient to be able to multi-select assets (e.g., business terms or data classes) and then assign a new (primary) category. Use case example...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Source of data is missing within dashboards/stories

When a dashboard is developed and you want to verify that it is pulling back the right data from the right data items/objects - this is impossible to determine. All you have is the data item name - but what happens when that data item name exists ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add more data server connections

Add connectors to Azure offerings, particularly SQL Azure.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Standalone Cube viewer

The proposed idea is to create a standalone Cube Viewer for PAfE to be able to browse the data without the need for Excel to be running in the background (like former Architect). Overall, it offers a faster, efficient way to interact with data, si...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

LOCK1-Structure

By drop database with many objects (TS,IX,Part) and a lot of statistic data, it can happen that the Lock1 structure gets full. Other possible reasons for LOCK1-Structure full conditions during DDL (DROP): - Object has to many entries in SYSIBM.SYS...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Custom Modeling in Data Modules from Planning Analytics

Using a data source connection to a Planning Analytics application, I'm able to generate a Cognos Analytics Data Module from specific application cubes. However, when opening the Data Module, I first have to create a table/view of the application ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Redshift connector slow in IIS DataStage for Insert/Update

We have a use case in which we need to process records from IIS DataStage into an aws Redshift instance. When using the stage as currently implemented, we're seeing a throughput that averages 2-6 records a second which is far below the acceptable ...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 3 Planned for future release

BI 10.2.2 SQL Data Sources change to Other in CA 11

For Data Sources that use Microsoft SQL Server, when a BI 10.2.2 Content Store is upgraded to CA 11, the "Type" of connection is being changed from Microsoft SQL Server (in version 10.2.2) to "Other" (in version CA 11). This occurs with any Data S...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration