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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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either a flag to align the zero's of the two axis or a value to align them at

I'll like to synchronize the X axes for the Zero value, see attach file.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Metadata XML of Archive file has No differenciation between varchar and varchar(max)

Please refer TS017199755 Archive viewer used these XML files to map the datatypes of the column and the way optim processes the Varchar and Varchar(Max) is different and way we convert this to parquet will also be different. Now we are relying on ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

DB2 Administration Tool enhancement for SQL, DDL, DML syntax checking

Add enhancement to syntax check SQL, DDL, DML before execution. Recently attended presentation of Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS and it has a 'Smart Editor' which performed these checks. I asked about it and was told it is using macros from the DB...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Be able to add data security to uploaded files

Be able to add data security to uploaded files: in some cases when uplaoded files get a more official status (like uploaded targets for sales reps or budget data for accounts), you want to be able to limit the access to these uploaded files like y...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extend Cognos Analytics product documentation by information about 3rd party certificates

I was activating ssl in a customer's productive cognos analytics environment. I followed the instructions of the corresponding product documentation for cognos analytics 11.2.4: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=ecmica-conf...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Restore Critical Files [only]

In case of a mistakenly deletion of files in/below the instance home directory of Db2 it should be possible to restore [only] these files/directories etc. At the moment if files/directories are mistakenly deleted, a complete database restore would...
over 5 years ago in Db2 4 Not under consideration

Add support for inline file attachment editing of Microsoft Visio documents

Users can open Microsoft Office files directly from OpenPages. Every time a user clicks save within a file that is opened in this way, the file is saved in the OpenPages file repository. However, other users cannot see the changes until the file i...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Forward CP4D Job logs to OpenShift supported log collector and forward it to an external log store

Customer would like to collect all Job/Run logs generated by Watson Notebook /Pipeline services , and forward it to an external central log store facilities . Currently they have configured OpenShift Cluster Logging operator (CLO) to collect all t...
about 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Future consideration

Auto create table or prompt tp create tables based on content in object storage bucket.

Add a function to crawl configured buckets for files which can be configured or registered as an available table and surface these as a task to approve or reject. The crawler will be smart enough to understand the connector/catalog type and what c...
about 2 years ago in watsonx.data 0 Delivered

Reduce manual steps in the OpenPages deployment process

There are too many manual steps in the OpenPages deployment process which is a risk to a successful deployment and stability of the deployed code. This request is to automate or eliminate the manual steps. Please check the attached file for the en...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Future consideration