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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.

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

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Planning Analytics Workspace object sizes

Problem Description There is currently a maximum size to the content the PAW backup.ps1 script can manage. If the PAW container databases exceed this maximum size, then the backup.ps1 script fails. Currently there does not seem to be a way to de...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Planning Analytics Workspace backup not returning error exit code

Problem Description It seems that the PAW backup.ps1 utility generates a success exit code (0) even when the backup fails. For example, if the PowerShell command is unable to complete a backup because its file size limitation has been reached, a...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Possibility for user to select storing dataset as parquet-file or as db2 dataset.

We are having issues with db2 datasets (Some datasets originally stored as parquet files can not be stored as db2 datasets) while evaluating this new feature. In meantime users can not create new datasets to production.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Is a defect

Separate configuration files from attachment files

The settings and attachment files are together on the file server and there is no way to distinguish them, we need a way to distinguish between the 2 types of filessystem configuration files together with attached files can even be included in a n...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Data Manager enhancement: Mark job as DONE after file reaches final destination

We want the main job to be marked as DONE only after the data file has been successfully transferred to the user-specified destination. Currently, with the integration of LSF and Data Manager, the main job is marked as DONE as soon as the 'bstage ...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Enable an option to use UTF-8 as the default encoded for mail services

As today, BAW allow the customer to work on a Java file to define the email structure. However, we can't easily define that UTF-8 is the default encoding for the texts. From my experience with this customer, even if you define it on the html struc...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service 1 Submitted

Dependency Management (for TCC)

In order to provide a better dependency management while implementing applications, I ask you to provide a Maven POM file. Providing dependencies via copy and paste causes, among many other things, a bigger software repository and/or unpredictable...
about 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Improve Excel-import with the ability to adjust characteristics

During the Excel import frequently the data type of columns is identified incorrectly. It would be great if you are able to set the correct datatype of columns during the import of Excel/CSV. This creates issues when you try to update (refresh) an...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow for Altering the Partitioning Columns Through Panels

When altering the columns involved in partitioning a table, several steps must be done which introduces complexity and potential for errors. This is the current provided solution: Do a GEN on the table and save the generated DDL. Adjust the partit...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists
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Enhance Category Export feature in UI to include also Collaborators and their Category roles

Merged
in 5.0.2 version Category export as csv file does not include Collaborators and their roles.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration