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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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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.

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



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Cell Security None to Return #N/A in reports/views in Pafe

Moving from Perspectives to Pafe we noticed that Cell security Rules where it is defined to set intersections to "None" does not produce a #N/A or #Value within Pafe Excel and will show a zero instead. With in the Viewer window in Pafe we still ge...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Browser based Usage of SPSS Modeler

Hi all, it would be great if SPSS Modeler could be provided via Browser and not as a Client Installation. First problem for us is: To maintain all client installations at our company is nearly impossible. We could use Citrix, but the authenticatio...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Functionality already exists

Data Catalog: Deny ability to publish data assets when asset with same name already exists in the catalog

Currently the WDP - Data Catalog allows any user of a project to publish any data asset and will always create a new set of assets. In my case when working with the catalog, I published the SAME data asset multiple times to my catalog because I wa...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0

Add ability to detect changes in data (similar to QSYS2.DISPLAY_JOURNAL)

When supporting a production environment, one needs to detect the sequence of updates, including before and after image. On IBMi, we use extensively the functionality to consult the journal entries (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/qsys2displayjo...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Add support for importing, managing, and providing lineage reporting for Cognos and other BI tools

There are 2 pieces here IMO LOB viz/dashboards based on catalog Harvest of CA metadata into catalog for audit/compliance. #1 is CA looking into catalog #2 is using Catalog like IGC to manage compliance/lineage. Catalog pulling from Cognos. Al...
almost 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

Associate or a Copy an object using Workflow or Calculations Engine.

I have a scenario. In OP there is a Data type of Business Entity selector. Let's Suppose A process is a child of BusEnt. There is a process that is associated with a primary BusEnt. Now If the User wants to add a secondary BusEnt using the Busines...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Provide the ability to create a Catalog using a single Cloud Object Storage bucket

Provide the ability to create a Catalog against a single Cloud Object Storage bucket. This provides several benefits: - The ability to use a Cloud Object Storage bucket as an "Incoming Destination" to quarantine all new content - It enables a s...
about 8 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

restore to point in time when using external table with archecker

With IDS11.7 , when using external table, I could only restore the table being deleted from the instance Level 0 backup with archecker, can't restore those data from logical log. If i use normal table, archecker could restore the data from both th...
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DSNHDECP usage

The DSNHDECP modules is currently used in our shop and needs to be created for every DB2 subsystem, or data sharing group. This means that we need to create individual SDSNEXIT libraries for each subsystem. We used to have one SDSNEXIT which held ...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Lineage at Data Assets level

The latest documentation available for Cloud Pak for Data 4.0: https://www.ibm.com/support/producthub/icpdata/docs/content/SSQNUZ_latest/wsj/governance/ia-lineage.html indicates that the lineage capability is available only at Information Assets l...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered