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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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Make available a list of supported Source/Target Connections and the supported versions

Please provide a list off all the supported data sources and versions. I believe this is currently already provided for other products ( e.g. Cognos - the 'supported software - data sources ' tab on the Software Product Compatibility Report "https...
about 7 years ago in Information Server 0 Functionality already exists

Prevent Data Entry into Consolidated Rule Driven cells within PAW/Architect

Long running thread is spawn when data is spread on a consolidated rule driven cell. If an Admin user does not notice the thread, a restart of the instance is required to kill this thread
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Search for "pacakges" is needed in Cognos Analytics 11

In Cognos 11 users can search for 'Reports, Folders, Dashboards, Data, Explorations, Notebook and other' but one of the most important objects "packages" is not on the search list. It is often "how many packages are in ...... cognos environment" b...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

allow QM to EASILY search for SQL that does data changes

This idea belongs to both the ISPF QM interface and the CAE browser interface. I would like some method to use QM to EASILY find SQL that is doing data changes. Sometimes I am using QM to search for SQL that is doing data changes. Why? I am trying...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

SMTP without authentication, specify sender address

In case of empty user data in SMTP settings will cause sending email without sender address. In this case the email could be rejected by policy, or catch by the spam filter. Suggested solution: Separated sender address field could be added for t...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Functionality already exists

Security improvement - project lib to obtain token without having to hard code it in the notebook

The project token gives you superuser access to connected data. I would like Watson Studio to pass the project lib authentication token without me having to harcode it in my notebook.
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Functionality already exists

filter the items in the Data Catalog by the governance artifacts assigned to it

Wants the ability to filter the items in the Data Catalog by the governance artifacts assigned to it. Currently only able to filter by 'Asset Type', 'Connection Source' and 'Tags'. We want to filter by 'Classification' assigned to be able to see t...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Allow export of attributes to Excel

One way to further analyze the data shown in a planning analytics view is to export it to Excel. Attributes are a way to assign properties to members and can be very useful in selecting them. Planning analytics does not currently allow exporting o...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

REORG with the DISCARD WHEN ... and AUX YES option on a table that contains a LOB column should end with an error

When doing a REORG with the DISCARD WHEN ... and AUX YES option on a table that contains a LOB column , DB2 list the message 'DSNU124I Æ 286 09:07:08.23 DSNURFIT - AUX YES SPECIFICATION IS IGNORED AND AUX NO IS IN EFFECT FOR CURRENT UTILITY EXECU...
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Improve ways to get Object Storage credentials

If I have no data in my object storage, there's currently no way in DSX to find the credentials to my object storage account. The only way is to log in to Bluemix and navigate to the appropriate Object Storage instance and find them there.
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Functionality already exists