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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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Capability to filter on validation error messages during import

When validating for import a system configuration object, a validation error message appears hundreds of times, which reads: Duplicate EnumVal record with either name (...) or value (...) is defined in the Property (...) and Bundle (...). resolve ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

PAW - Export to Excel - Customize Workbook Name

Exporting a view from a paw book to excel will default to the view name used to create the report, however there are many times which a user will start with a different report as their basis for creating a new PAW book. Since the view that was use...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide Macro Functions in Send Email Sections

Provision to add following dynamic text to be report output file distributed via email1. DATE or YY/MM2. Source of the Report (Package Name or Cube Name)3. As of Date/Time4 .Data source Name
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report functionality for annual review of users within projects that are within ldap groups ou=Datastage

I have attached the below steps it takes for me to get a file of users from a certain project within datastage. I'd love it if there was a report feature to grab these details without all the clicks and file saving. Please look over the document a...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Improve Ontape Point-in-Time Restores for Tables

The archecker tool can be used for point-in-time restores of table data from Level 0 Informix backups in conjunction with whatever logs were created after the Level 0 backup. However, if an organization does one Level 0 backup per week, then they ...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

Need API-driven repository sync against Git providers

Need version control - driven sync against CP4D files and assets
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Cognos as standard service on Linux

Also applicable for PMR 87056 003 756.Would like to get a good reliable Cognos start / stop / restart / status script for Cognos as a service on Linux that stands in the standards of the Linux daemons: • Start/stop via service interface • Daem...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Introduce a parametric filter in calculation

When you have to select Input field you can find it in a related obj or in a Preference ... but when you try to filter the related records by an enumerate filed, you can only select one or more “specific value” BUT YOU CAN NOT FILTER record where ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Upload file permission

For compliance reasons, we need to have file upload permission that can be assigned to different roles. We need to limit Datastage job upload/deployment via web interface and other files. A user will need this permission to be able to upload any k...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

SPSS Sentinel License Manager and extra modules

We have a number of users for SPSS. We use the concurrent license that works with the Sentinel License Manager (SLM). Now it is so that we also use additional modules, such as: bootstrapping, Exact Tests, Advanced Statistics, and we make these mod...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration