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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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Feature request to verify backups in parallel

Hello, The onbar backup verification process runs in serial and takes a long time to complete for large databases (60+ hours to complete for an 800GB database). It would be helpful if the backup verification process could run in parallel, similar ...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Planned for future release

Enrichment on non-connected data sources

Hi Team,Need feature to upload the data file which is created out of DB extract of non connected DB. We don't have this feature in icp4d 4.5.3. Due to this issue we need to create an intermediate DB for each DB connection which is not a scalable s...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Add Relative Date on FM Package dates and measures in Data Module

Relative Dates feature is very useful for doing as of date analysis. but currently it is limited to excel file, data sets. Our users mostly use FM package to do this kind of analysis.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

easy-to-use NPS Client application like as Aginity Workbench

It would be helpful to provide customers with easy-to-use NPS Client application like as Aginity Workbench, which was withdraw. This application should have the following features: Generating DDL scripts for database objects View / edit comments f...
over 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Future consideration

Adding auto-sync to add a group users from OKTA without importing .cvs file

The IT/admin wants to be able to add multiple or a group of users from OKTA (Open ID) on CA instead of one by one, intuitively they'd do so directly from the 'add' button and expect to see the list (of user groups) for selection. Benefits: this ne...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Provide live/refresh schedule connection types to excel file uploads feature and allow users to create prompts in Dashboards

Releasing many newer versions every year since 2015 is waste without thinking of adding live/schedule refresh options for excel file uploads like Tableau. This is where Cognos is mainly lagging behind because many of the excel customers creating t...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Provide an API for DSX

One really nice feature with Bluemix is that it is possible to automate creating and setting up services and applications. It would be good if an API existed for DSX so that we could automate tasks like: - create and delete projects - add/remove...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 3 Delivered

Storing Large Objects in file sytem

Feature similar to Oracle "bfile" data type. Store the large object in file system.
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

GDPR: Allow for file attachments to be anonymized as well (file name and contents)

GDPR API features introduced with version 8.0.0.1 do not allow for anonymizing file names and contents. At least for PDF, TXT, CSV and common MS Office files should be consider during search and replace (anonymization) as well.
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

The Q-Replication apply programm shall be able to call the Db2 High Performance Unload (HPU) utility by the HPU stored procedure

Hello, in enterprise warehouse and OLTP areas of DB2 installations exist often very big databases with several tera bytes (often 100 of TBs) of data. For example we have several OLTP databases with more than 20TB and tables with billion of records...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration