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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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There is no way to manage local pipelines in Data Collector 6.x through Legacy Control Hub

There is no way to stop and delete local Data Collector 6.x pipelines from Legacy Control Hub. This includes SCH Test Runs that have been disassociated with a pipeline in Control Hub and any pipeline that may have been created using the Data Colle...
2 months ago in StreamSets 1 Not under consideration

Conversion DECIMAL do CHAR

We are in the process of migrating data from Db2 z/OS to Db2 LUW. In our many programs we convert DECIMAL data into CHAR, e.g. to display it on the reports in a readable format. Unfortunatelly Db2 LUW formats data diffrently than Db2 z/OS. Let us ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Submitted

Improve Stored Procedures features

We are trying to increase the usage of SP in our system environment. Migrating business code from 4GL to the database.But this process becomes very painful for our developers since the support for SPL is limited. Mainly the inexistence of a native...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Filter by Type in the Data folder through the Drive Explorer

This was available in perspectives and helps in several ways. You can select a certain type ie feeders and right click properties and get the total space consumed by your feeders. Also it helps just to narrow down the number of files you have to s...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

'on no match default' functionality (for import specifications) in Controller Web

Customer already use import specs and CSV files to import data into Controller classic. However, they would like to use Controller Web instead. The customer relies on the classic functionality " on no match default " to get their classic impor...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Enable Primary Key & Foreign Key Support for all connections Especially for GBQ connection

We request an Enhancement to support Primary key and foreign key relationships in GBQ connection types. Currently this functionality is unavailable in v5.1.1, impacting our ability to maintain data integrity and enforce relationships in our Data l...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Add filters by Click on Graph like CA Dashboard

We need a filter functionality like we have in CA dashboard. by clicking on the bar chart any of the data bar the other graphs in the PAW tab get filtered.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search for text snippets across an Action of an Assistant

In the dialog mode, its possible to perform a search for text snippets within the Nodes, which greatly facilitates in the customer's daily tasks when its needed to find specific information and direct it exactly to where the data is located. For e...
11 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

NEW SCALAR function for DB2 SQL – HEX2BIGINT

NEW SCALAR function for DB2 SQL – HEX2BIGINT I would like to see IBM provide a specific function for converting a HEX to BIGINT. I think this would be useful for many/most/all users of Db2! Why? The IBM LOAD utility will report that when input dat...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

PAfE: IBM Connections: Avoid Automatic Addition of Connection URLs When Opening Workbook

When opening workbooks, the "IBM Connection URLs" used during the creation of the workbook (likely stored in the worksheet's custom properties "COR_Report" and/or "COR_Server") are automatically added to PAfE (CommManagerSettings.xml) without noti...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted