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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.

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auto loading of metadata in data server connection

At the moment it is not possible to automatically (re)load the meta data for a data server connection. It would be helpful to have a way to automate this with a timer job or something else, so that users dont have to do a manual refresh of the met...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Update the sidebar views access

Problem Statement: We have successfully transitioned our TM1Web reports/templates to Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW). Some users require access to Cube Views for data extraction and analysis. In PAW, the ability to access Cube Views from the le...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

SAS: Support PROC RANK

Background: When Manta (42.13) comes across SAS code that uses PROC RANK, it ignores that block of code and does not draw lineage for that block. For example, when this code is used: proc rank data=T_NOT_98_&mth. TIES=DENSEout=T_NOT_98_1_&...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Planned for future release

Create a function to set MTQ parameter NumberofThreadsTo Use manually in the prolog of a TI process then set it back to its normal value in the epilog

This would stop issues where high touch processes conflict with other processes causing issues such as nulptr errors. It would also alleviate the risk of hanging up the instance where 2 processes attempt to lock the same objects and ultimately a s...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Data Refinery Fails to Process Aliased SQL Columns

A user running a Data Refinery flow against a SQL Query asset is encountering a SQL error. The user has aliased a column in the SQL query (e.g., from default_category_value to source_category_value). However, when the Data Refinery flow generates ...
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Add a copy/paste specification to clipboard option for Dashboards and Data Modules

Like it exists for Reports, it will be great to have a copy/paste specification to clipboard option for DataModules and Dashboards.
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Copy everything from one environment to another, except data

Currently, when refreshing a lower environment from production, we are required to bring production data into the lower environment, which poses a data security risk for our company. If OpenPages offered a tool or option to export everything from ...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 3 Planned for future release

Data Module - Possibility to join DC, PA cube, File and FM sources

Possibility create joins in Data module between different type of data sources. E.g. it is not possible to join two dynamic cubes on the fly or enrich Cube data with excel or to combine Planning analytics data to Dynamic Cubes.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Enable partitioning for .CUB and .FEEDER files

For very large (over 10GB) .cub and .feeder files, the time to load, save or process them could be substantially reduced were they partitioned and processed in parallel. For servers with 40 cores, the time savings can be significant. The obvious u...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

REORG Utility

The REORG utility (or a new utility) needs to be redesigned so that concurrent application modifications can continue while the REORG utility is running. This needs to be a TRUE "REORG" such that the data is unloaded in key order and put back in t...
11 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review