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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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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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Include subsystem recognition character in DSNU000I message

Currently there is no deterministic way of knowing which subsystem DSNUTILB is connecting to. Especially true in a data sharing group when using a group attachment code. This would be useful for, for example, auditing purposes and, in some situati...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Formatting options in "Line and column" chart

There is currently no option to resize the font for line and column values making it very hard to view the actual data on the visualisation, unless u view that specific visualization on full screen. Adding this option would aid the usability aspec...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show throughput (records/second) between stages in DataStage in Live View

Background: Databand's integration with DataStage reports record counts of inputs and outputs as metrics once a run has completed. In order to measure the efficiency of data being transformed and moved by DataStage, it would be helpful to see the ...
about 2 years ago in Databand / Feature 0 Needs more information

Show throughput (records/second) between stages in DataStage in Pipeline Run

Background: Databand's integration with DataStage reports record counts of inputs and outputs as metrics once a run has completed. In order to measure the efficiency of data being transformed and moved by DataStage, it would be helpful to see the ...
about 2 years ago in Databand / Feature 0 Planned for future release

Read execution jobs from Deployment Space

Background: IBM Cloud Pak for Data has the entity of Deployment spaces which is parallel to project. For Datastage, this means each job can be either in some Project or in some Deployment Space (Test/Prod/etc). Currently the Databand <> Data...
about 2 years ago in Databand / Feature 0 Planned for future release

Common activities (email, Slack etc.) should have specific experiences

There are common activities such as email, Slack etc., where the configuration is typically consistent across teams. For instance, all emails have a "To" field. So, the aim is to provide experiences where the mapping is done on behalf of the user....
about 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Not under consideration

enable to fabricate data for tables with circular dependency.

Currently IBM Optim TDF tool doesn't support tables with circular dependency. it doesn't even accept the tables with circular dependency to add into TDF project. We would like IBM to enable TDF to generate data for tables with circular dependency.
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Fabrication 1 Future consideration

Postgres TEXT data type to VARCHAR at Optim level

Optim version = V11.7.0.1 DB alias = PostgreSQL 11.8 Optim is extracting TEXT data type from postgres database as a LOB data, so unable to proceed with the masking on LOB columns. But even if we defined as TEXT data type at database level, the dat...
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 4 Planned for future release

Linking JN into a CA environment even with non-continuous protocol types.

Signal Iduna (German Insurance company) obtains their Cognos Analytics (on prem) out of an IBM Cloud Pak for Data license, which contains Cognos Analytics. In the Cloud Pak for Data 4.5.x bundle, CA 11.2.2 is the included version, which is current...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add acquired balance sheet and net result in shareholdings

Normally when acquiring a business combination there's an acquired balance sheet needed for cash flow purposes and also eliminating the net result before the acquisition date if the acquired company reports YTD values. Today acquired balance sheet...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration