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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Drive Explorer: use Shift button to select multiple files

In the Rich Tier remote access to the S drive we were able to use native Windows Explorer functionality to select one file, hold down the Shift key, and select multiple other files. In Drive Explorer this is only allowing the options of All Files ...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered
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Backup Image file needs final stats, index/table contents and fast restore LOGS only

Merged
Backup Image file needs final stats for use at restore time, index/table contents and fast restore LOGS only. Assuming f.i. one has a "full online backup db include logs", a restore of a 'big' backup image (especially > 1 TB) , in another serve...
over 4 years ago in Db2 4 Not under consideration

Exporting/Downloading Uploaded Data Files

Add the option to be able to export/download previously uploaded files from Cognos Analytics.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Build a Informix HQ server Container

The current process for deploying Informix HQ servers and agents across 600+ sites involves manually redoing scripts and configuration files for each site. This process is time-consuming, error-prone, and difficult to scale as it requires individu...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Submitted

Keep HTML view of report in browser when changing it to Excel version

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7, users ran a report with prompts on the report page with the List in HTML. From the Viewer they would select Run > Excel, which would open a separate window browser Window for the Excel download. The original Cognos V...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Modernizing ADABAS: Optimizing INSERT into Adabas Virtual Tables

One of the key points in a modernization project for a site with Adabas is to “normalize” Adabas Data Model. DVM offers a normalized Data Model for any Adabas file, converting MU/PE fields into auxiliary Tables. This normalization has a cost: you ...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

"Download in progress" notification when exporting websheets from PAW

When a user opens an Excel websheet that is hosted on Planning Analytics Workspace, they have an option to export the sheet to Excel. Currently, there is no notification or indication that the download has started or is in progress. For a user on ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Whenever you offer 'Export to PDF' allow also export to csv (or some other computer-readable format)

PDF is fine as a document of its own, for sharing/documenting as a static copy. However, if we would try to further refine the info and join it with something else, then pdf is useless. Trying to extract same info from reporting database would be ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Resource connector provider configuration file ( such as cyclecloudprov_config.json) should have encrypted passwords/credentials

Security leak will be avioded. Clear text password are risky to put;.
about 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 0 Future consideration

Temporal Base Table SQLOUT INSERTS have generate always columns as part of the insert

The timestamp columns supporting temporal should not be part of the INSERT. Also anytime a generate always column is excluded as it should have been in this run, columns must be added to the INSERT statement. --UNDO SQL FOR SUBSYSTEM: DAA1 --L...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 4 Delivered