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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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Data Modules - Provide DQM Settings

In Framework models you have the ability to set DQM settings: Multi Fact Join Operator can be set to "Equal Operator". BigQuery doesn't support "Is Not Distinct From" and there are no visible options to change the behaviour of a Data Module. If yo...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Selecting a member in a hierarchy on a filter in a dashboard should select all members rolling up to it

I have a dashboard created on a planning analytics (TM1) data source. I add a hierarchy from a dimension in the data source to the filter pane. This is a 3-level hierarchy. I open the levels below the top level (i.e., Level1 based upon planning an...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Split Labels and (Surrogate) keys in Data Modules

In Framework Manager it is currently possible to split Labels and Keys. Meaning, an end user will see the label of a field (eg. The Netherlands) and in the backend, Cognos will filter on the attached key (eg. 12345). The advantage of this is that,...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Select leaf level elements in hierarchy when creating datasets from dimensional data

Hi, we would invite to have more options when selecting the hierarchical elements for data sets for dimensional data sources like TM1/PA. Today we can even select member of member+children which is not enough detailed to create correct dataset. We...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Increased Character Count for Journal Text when doing Import of General Ledger Journal

Using Transfer>External Data>Import General Ledger Journals, there is a character limit of 255 on the journal text. This is very short for a journal text. Also to note, is much shorter than what is allowed if User were to manually create the...
about 6 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Enable the OpenPages platform to have documents associated with GRC process stored in an external platform to avoid duplication and point file storage solutions

Core to this idea is that the workflow, business process and data capture is mastered in OpenPages, but the associated documentation is stored in an enterprise content management solution (example IBM's Enterprise Content Management). This could b...
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

mapping of jobs directories from Data Flow designer to Bitbucket folders

As per our requirement, DS Job code should be checked into the "Datastage" Folder available in BitBucket feature branch. However what we see is that a new folder called DS Projects with path "Training/Jobs" gets created instead.
about 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Please do not make stabilizing dynamic query again after a REBIND with APPLCOMPAT a normal behaviour

Hello, We're DB2z 12 FL508. This is a SAP/R3 application on 2-way data sharing. We stablized access path of some dynamic SQLs and they worked very well. Note that the packages were at APPLCOMPAT V12R1M500 when we did this. Lately, the packages wer...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Supporting all datatypes in parquet/avro/orc file format, we are really need it on parquet for sure

As of today these “date”, “decimal/numeric”, “timestamp” data types in parquet file format not supported by Datastage 11.5 or 11.7, which is required for critical data migration project.And now we are converting above data type to different format...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Delivered

View Allocated CPU's from Table View

Application Center does not allow a user to view the currently allocated CPU's from the table view. The workaround provided by the support team in unacceptable as it generates a large degree of system load, and the resulting data is not sortable
about 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered