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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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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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Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE) - Allow the use of subsets in the DBRW function

In Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE) the DBRW Excel function does not allow to use subsets to retrieve data, but only dimension members, unlike with Planning Analytics Perspectives where the use of subsets is allowed in the DBRW function. At Bac...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Adding feature for more frequent commits when using DB2 connector

When loading big amount of data into DB2 for Warehousing, we are exceeding DB2 limitation 300GB which means that we need to load the data with more than just one commit. However when using external tables in DataStage, DB2 connector ingores the co...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Delivered

Data compress of CDC on network transmission

CDC needs compress function for lowing network traffic, especially on building data replication on long distance.
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Modify recent projects on home page

When you first log into cloud pak for data there is a section on the home page that shows Recent Projects. However recent projects doesn't update by the most recent project that you have opened and used, it appears to be updated by modified date. ...
almost 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

EPM Manager

Users would like to benefit from the request tool for transaction logs existing in TM1 Architect or Perspectives.It is so far possible to download in PAW administration page a transaction log file from a specific day, but if you want to analyse a ...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Issue - Data formatting on Conditional blocks

1. Data formatting defined for the cell doesn't work inside conditional blocks.2. Search Enhancement - Cannot search for report within subfolder. Always, search option shows result from the root folder in cognos connection3. Copy and Paste Enhance...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Table - Complex Aggregation

We rely heavily on calculated percentages / rates that are embedded within our framework modeler packages, both relational and DMR. Many of these calculations require complex aggregation that entails the percentage / rate (such as return on sales ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Collaboration record for Governance Artifacts

workflows for governance artifacts (terms, data classes, etc.) have optional or required comment boxes for collaborators on the artifacts to add to. This is required if an approval is rejected in a workflow. Those comments do not appear to the req...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Support additional single-byte encodings for column-organized tables

The latest updates to DB2 have added the support of codepage 809 (ISO8859-1) for databases using column-organized tables..This is good for many Western customers, who are able to avoid switching to Unicode (and paying the penalty of 2x or 3x chara...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Report Update Trigger event when Data updated to Cloud

No current way to trigger an event to inform subscribers when new PowerCube data which their report uses is updated.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration