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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.

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



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dynamic report output caching

DQM in combination with dynamic cubes brings exceptional caching capabilities. One aspect of the report execution process which is not cached in this system is the rendering of report spec and XML. In order to determine if the query can consume a ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 REST service should support ‘Using ARRAY data type as INPUT parm in a Native SQLPL’

We have a SQLPL with ARRAY type as INPUT/OUTPUT parm. REST Service allows to ‘create’ as service calling ‘SQLPL with ARRAY type as INPUT parm’ but throws error while calling the same service. Method :POST Scheme://HOST[“.” PORT][PATH][“?”QUE...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

saving data with a mouse-click instead of writing code through JDBC connector in CSV or other formats

I can currently browse it in the UI/IDE using the various inspectors. It would be nice if I could easily save this data to a file with a mouse click rather than having to write code, or add JDBC connections and rerun the model, etc. Typically what...
almost 4 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

Enabling the "XLS" option avaialble for reports along with "PDF" and "XLSX".

The user find it more efficient to format the data in XLS format for Cognos Reports.
over 1 year ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Expansion of Data Dictionary to Include Non-Connected Assets and APIs

The UI should provide basic import capabilities to allow assets to be created/maintained in the data dictionary from metadata provided in .csv format (or similar). These assets may or may not have associated connection information in CP4D but shou...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Key Pair Authentication for Snowflake Target Agent for CDC

As per my organization's security standards, I need to use Key Pair authentication to connect to Snowflake. I need to also fetch the private key and passphrase from secret store. The private key and passphrase will be rotated in the secret store, ...
over 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered

Allow all job status querying from Cloud Pak for Data API

Neither "Watson Data API" or "IBM Cloud Pak for Data Platform API" have functions for platform administrator to get all job status information, even from projects or deployment spaces where they are not members. Currently if platform admin has all...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics JDBC driver support for AB Initio software

Hi We use AB Initio for data caching. Currently, we connect via ODBC. We want to be able to connect using JDBC. Currently, when setting up a JDBC connection AB Initio is not listed in the list of supported
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Auditing actions of individual users

Our audit team requires the logs of what each individual user views or changes in the Openpages Operational risk management application so that we can log which user views or changes critical information on the system. For example, when a user ent...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 5 Not under consideration

Graphing of 'badmin perfmon view' data [JSON]

We graph data from the 'badmin perfmon view' report and it has a few issues:* Date strings have no timezone or year* While it's good for human readability, it's not great for computer parsing It would be useful to have a more parsable format (e.g....
almost 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered