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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.

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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Please add Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer without Adobe Flash

Currently the Hierarchical Stage Assembly Editor in DataStage Designer requires Adobe Flash. The new Data Flow Designer by no means matches the capabilities and richness of DataStage Designer. Please provide the capability of editing the Assembly ...
about 5 years ago in DataStage 5 Not under consideration

Toggle between Measures in Dashboard Visualization

If I am building a dashboard and I want to use the same visualization (PIe Chart for example), I would like to create the visualization only once and display it on the dashboard only once and then have some means to toggle between various measures...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display the prefetch wait time metrics in the monreport.dbsummary stored procedure .

The idea will be very useful in deciding the prefetcher performance in the database which helps in reducing the I/O usage in the system. What is this prefetch wait time and when it occurs?(DB2LUW performance) Prefetcheers are very important EDU's ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 2 Functionality already exists

Report and Job run status should be at a User's tenant level

Currently on a Multi tenant setup, users are able to see public Report/Job run status in Cognos administration. Although the only visible details users see are the name of the report/job, time of execution, status and the name of the user who runs...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Fill gap with Oracle optimizer on RP tables

DB2 optimizer in v10.5/v11.1 has still several weaknesses in generating correct plan when using RP tables, because it bases its plan only on global stats when partition (data and indexes) stats are available. Case TS001150102
about 7 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

VS Code hosted integrated in Watson Studio

Many data science code development tasks are analytical and can be done through the notebooks available. There are however tasks that require more sophisticated code develpment for which notebooks are not as suitable. For these it would be benef...
over 3 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Future consideration

Get the Data Class id within UI

We are implementing Data Quality rules using the Data Classes. And we cannot get the Data class ID within the UI; we had to use the APIs to get the data class id which is trickier in most cases as our business users are not familiar with APIs, so ...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Add SERVICE_CODES and BRANCH_QUALIFIER (from BicDir VALUE-ADDED SERVICES and EXTRA INFORMATION) to Reference Data- Bank data on Administration and Operation screens

Users need to know if BIC is connected or not to Swift and which services it uses
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Delivered

Copy or export from dashboards

Requesting additional features for dashboards. Users are not able to export data or copy data from the dashboard page.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Avoid Reorg Abends by improving estimation of average row length

Today, for estimating the average row length being passed to sort, REORG gets that from catalog statistics with either AVGROWLEN or COMPRESSRATIO. The reason RTS stats is not used, is because RTS only contains the compressed data size.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration