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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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Enhance Knowledge Catalog export/import feature to support a configurable list separator

Enhance Knowledge Catalog export/import feature to configure list separator as semicolon. In Europe decimal notation is comma which means that MS Excel converts comma separated files to semicolon separated files automatically when loaded. This wil...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Provide alternate authentication method for system accounts (different from user authentication method)

Safer Payments v6.8 introduced full OIDC support. In this version, Safer Payments now does the "heavy lifting", communication directly with the IDP to retrieve an ID token containing the user's information. This is a great feature and works with a...
4 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Possibility to influence the naming of NSDs in a Db2-managed pureScale installation

We run a regular cloning of a Db2 pureScale to provide a time consistent copy which is used for BI/DWH purposes.This is done via storage features, in our case with HDS (Hitachi) Shadow Image (similar to IBMs FlashCopy). We don't have any issues to...
8 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1

Customizable Table Naming in IBM Cognos Dataset Store

I have a suggestion for enhancing the Dataset Store feature in IBM Cognos, which automatically creates a table in DB2 upon uploading a CSV file. Currently, the table names are generated with a pattern that includes a prefix 'Cog' followed by two s...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Option to override LOAD utility maintaining MAXASSIGNEDVAL for identity columns in Db2 V12

Our existing process to move data from one region to another using the LOAD utility stopped working on tables with generated by default as identity key column after we upgraded to Db2 12. The new LOAD enhancement to maintain MAXASSIGNEDVAL is caus...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 5 Delivered

Task Focused UI - Linked Cognos reports opening in old Cognos viewer interface

With the upgrade to Cognos Analytics 11, one of the main functionalities is with report interactivity. OpenPages integration with Cognos is still using the pre-Cognos Analytics method and many of the new features do not run eg. Filters. Looking in...
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 4 Delivered

Request of a way of keeping OIDC user profiles with consistency check

The Consistency check doesn't work in an OpenId environment. We are trying to keep our database to the minimum size possible and also cleaning up when user are deleted from AD, etc. This function is not supported right now from what the support sa...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Remote storage and datalake tables for Db2 on AIX

The feature is already available in Db2 for a while, but only supported in (Intel) Linux environments. Many large customers have their Db2 workloads on Power/AIX, benefitting from the platform. To keep Db2 as core component of lakehouse architectu...
9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Not under consideration

GRID GUI to display the package information that are currently installed

There's a visibility gap in GUI when it comes to showing package-level details for installed applications, which is causing friction for both our team and the application teams who rely on that data. Current Workflow Summary Issue: GUI does not ...
3 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 5

OpenPages on CP4D should provide a feature to schedule cleanup of environment migration export files

Currently the only way to cleanup environment migration export files is to manually delete them from System Configuration -> System Files -> Migration Documents using the OpenPages Platform 3 profile. This cleanup cannot be automated and no ...
5 months ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted