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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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WKC recognizes multiple files in a bucket as a single data asset,

We need this because we want to be able to enter metadata only and access policies once for all files that comprise a data source. Specific examples: a) Uploading multiple pdfs needs to be able to store pdfs for a particular geo in a folder. Tho...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Migration of the database tables to be completed in less than 2 hours

As per the TCH mandates that are coming on April 1st, the installation and migration with any new release needs to be < 4 hours. While the deployment scripts can be parallelized to gain efficiency and be completed in <2 hours, the DB migrati...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Integration Server failed to create source view in Planning Analytics model if EnableSandboxDimension is enabled

Cognos Integration Server failed to create source view in Planning Analytics model if EnableSandboxDimension is enabled in tm1s.cfg file for the said PA source model. This results in CIS not able to transfer cube data from PA source model to anoth...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Odata Support for SAP Cloud for Customer (C4C)

The SAP OData Connector works only with S/4 HANA systems. We have to integrate some OData Custom Services from SAP C4C (SAP Cloud for Customer). Do to this we have to call the OData Service with curl/wget and free the result from the OData header ...
over 3 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Similarity based job scheduling

Currently LSF schedules jobs based on memory and CPU requirements, with an emphasis on the throughput. However, there are certain situations where jobs prefer to be dynamically scheduled to run on the same host, because of data locality for exampl...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Make ingestion independent from document order

Currently, the data type of the indexed fields is determined when the first document is uploaded (or when the indexed field appears for the first time). If the data type is not unique in the first document, the full document is not indexed and thu...
over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Delivered

Additional clarity that Data Refinery profile and visualizations only use the sample

It is not clear when using Data Refinery that the rendered data and, more importantly, the data used in the visualization and profile panes, is just the sample. We need to be upfront about this, to prevent users from looking at the data sample thr...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 2 Delivered

Show more info on asset in the Knowledge Catalog

In general the information shown on any asset in the Knowledge Catalog UI is fairly minimal, both on the overview page as well as the details page. Consider adding: - size information for files - record count information for data base tables etc. ...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Storing of enriched/additional information outside of the standard data model

in DNB we have to save a lot of information outside of the out of the box FTM Data Model. The main strategies available out of the box are: - use object values/id references --> this leads to a quick proliferation in key value objects which imp...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Allow for an Administrator to Release an Item where it is currently Reserved by another user.

In a retail environment and focused on Merchandising, we have multiple buying teams with the merchandising co-ordinator factored into the team. The Merchandise Co-ordinator is responsible for inducting and maintaining Product data within the busin...
almost 4 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered