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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.

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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Add support for Cascading FlashCopy for COPY command with FASTREP(REQ) - see PTF UI172348

Context: We take daily System Level backups (SLB) of our SAP production environments using the BACKUP SYSTEM utility. We use Incremental FlashCopy to reduce the amount of data that needs to be physically copied to the FlashCopy target volumes and ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 4 Delivered

Restrict "Create Calculation" for specific data Items in Framework Manager.

Idea is to restrict users to create calculatoin for specific data Items. we don't want to remove "Create Calculation" globally for all data items. (By unchecking create calculation from capabilities).
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show mapped paths in ontape restore

Customer has two instances in same server one "real" for production and one for development. Development instance data is synchronized from real data by restoring production instance ontape Level 0. As both are in the same server, a chunk mapping ...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Recipient Management

Recipient management should provide a UI for maintenance of recipient data. There currently is no UI that can allow an Ops user to maintain this information UI come up read only in 3.2.5, we need UI for editing
about 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 1 Delivered

IzODA MDS - RACF CHECK VSAM and/or Sequential Datasets Before Ingestion

IzODA / MDS team,the MDS component of IzODA checks DB2 internal security to validate access permissions, and schedules a PSB to validate IMS permissions before accessing the data. We are left with sequential and vsam files with no auth pre-check i...
about 5 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Import Group journals in Cognos Controller using CSV

Please, provide the ability to import Group Journals using Type of Journal = G (Group) in IBM Cognos Controller using CSV files from Transfer / External Data / Import General Journals. G option is allowed to be used but it does not work. It will...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

Load memory requested and reserved via gridacct command

Load memory requested and reserved via gridacct command. Currently, this data is not loaded into RTM.
about 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 0 Delivered

Oracle Exadata SPSS Modeler 17 Scoring Adapter

This RFE is being submitted on behalf of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA). NGA is utilizing an Oracle Exadata 5 appliance running Oracle 12C to support it's data warehousing efforts. The SPSS Modeler Server ver. 17 is executing it...
over 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

read only root file system

Follow security best practice (CIS) and mount images as read-only (a read only root file system via readOnlyRootFilesystem: true). Then mounted volumes from outside the container could be used for any data that needs to be persistent.
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

All pods from helm test should end in a "Completed" state and not an "Error" state.

As the installer of Watson Assistant on Cloud Pak for Data, seeing anything that says "Error" is concerning and encourages me to open up a support case with IBM. A pod ending up in an "Error" status suggests that something has gone wrong in the te...
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration