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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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Enable additional Header/ content in CSV format for report output

We are creating a report that we will export as a CSV file that will then be imported/uploaded to a 3rd party site. The 3rd party site has strict formatting requirements. For example, the first line of the CSV file is additional header with text i...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Scriptable Reports: Page module configuration

A page module can be used to control prompting -- default values for specific prompts, required prompt combinations, etc. But there is no way to configure a page module to be specific to a report. This leads to having a separate .js file for each ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Supporting access to system logs on nzsaas from nzcli

It is useful to investigate error messages in connections to Netezza such as 'timeout expired' among others or to validate execution of scripts to kill long queries etc. This way, administrators of the Netezza environment in Sicoob will continue t...
over 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Unable to read SQL stements from file using Goole BigQuery Connector stage.

Need to be able to read SQL stements from file using Goole BigQuery Connector stage.
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Distributing  various files like spark events, spark job logs,  across pvcs.

Customer is expecting a performance bottle neck if we don't distribute the files that are going into file-api-pv. For example when we look at a spark executor yaml, we see atleast 5 or more mount paths to file-api-pv. Customer some times is runnin...
almost 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Encrypt TrustStorePassword in the odbc.ini file

We have the uid and password already encrypted ( in the way described in the doc in your link), But I was referring to the password for the truststore which is added in the odbc.ini file for SSL: TrustStore=/var/was/profiles/AppSrv01/config/cells/...
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

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

allow calling original file from WD when integrating with WA

Customer wanted to call original file(e.g. pdf) from WD from WA, as they want end-user directly review full content of original file(e.g, pdf) including images by click URL in WA.
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Request to Re-enable Component Selection During Planning Analytics Upgrade

Dear IBM Support, I would like to suggest reintroducing the option to select or unselect components during the upgrade process of IBM Planning Analytics. This feature was available in previous versions but appears to be missing in the upgrade from...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted