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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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Allowing incremental load for datasets

The customer needs to upload incremental data on a daily basis.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Option live query mode and cache

For most reports it's not relevant, the data is not realtime. For those reports I want to cache the data (within the report) for performance reasons. Whan i can choose a render option for a report Live or Cache (with a cache frequenty) Cognos will...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Masking function with GRANT per column

Column masking has been great help in managing sensitive data and complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).But today’s solution to know if a user has access to data without masking is to create a Mask using a CASE with SESSION_...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Allow for use of RACF passtickets when connecting to Db2 zOS

The current DSM documentation states to use a non-expiring RACF id for the DSM repository connection to z/OS and the connection profile "Data collection" credentials. Non expiring RACF ids are not allowed by our Security and Controls team. This pr...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Reading data from Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Need Datastage integration with Amazon SQS (simple queue service) to communicate JASON file
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Enrich Nested and Arrays of JSON

Data input often comes in more complicated forms than a flat JSON list, would be very useful for Discovery to be able to enrich this without customer pre-preprocessing.
about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Delivered

Active Directory as a Datasource

We use AUDIT + AD data to look at the environment utilization. Having Active Directory details within the reporting environment helps us connect to the users and their managers readily (with the email or phone info available in AD). If we see long...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Agnostic/Generic Instance Groups and Resource Scheduler

We are in need of agnostic/generic instance groups and an   agnostic/genericresource scheduler.*) agnostic/genericresource schedulerThere is a common need for our data scientists to schedule a "pure" non-Spark TensorFlow Python...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Replace DB Link between Downstream and Prod Database for 19-C TDE through IDR CDC

AS a part of 19-C TDE through IDR CDC, it uses DB Link between Primary and Downstream to call the Dictionary Build back to the Primary. IDR currently utilizes the DB link option to make the process of issuing and retrieving the StartSCN from a new...
over 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Not show a null value in picklist for TM1 Web and TM1 Applications Web

Hello, When we make use of picklists, in TM1 Web in a picklist dropdown we see first a blank element and afterwards the picklist elements. If we chek the behaviour of the same picklist in TM1 Perspectives, we do not see the blank element. we only ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration