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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Search should look for Ids, not just labels

WIthin Data Modules and Reports you can for items. For example, I could search for 'Sales'. This will show me all the items with Sales in the name. However, within reports and data module expressions, it is an objects Id that is shown and not the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1

DB2 LUW Federation Server should be able to use Sysplex Workload Balance (WLB) when connection to DB2 z/OS.

Implement Sysplex Workload Balance (WLB) for DB2 Federation Server connections to DB2 z/OS sysplex data sharing like exists for JDBC driver/DB2 Connect.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

Uniquely timestamp .zip backups of Content Store database

I would like to suggest adding the ability to uniquely name or timestamp the .zip backups of the Content Store database, so that they don't get overwritten every time a new backup is created. Right now it appears that when you set up a schedule fo...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Cumulative Totals in Dashboards, Data Modules and Data Sets

Currently, Cumulative Totals (running total, moving total) are not possible in Dashboards, Data Modules and Data Sets. Please add them.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Add Routing Rule Capability for Cognos Data Sets

Add the ability to assign a routing rule to data sets, like we can with FM packages.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display Origin Dataset and Data Source Metadata for Virtualized Assets in CP4D Data Virtualization

Currently, when visualizing virtualized assets in CP4D Data Virtualization, the UI does not display metadata indicating the origin dataset or the data source used to create a specific virtualized asset. This lack of information makes it challengin...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Data Virtualization 0 Submitted

In the 'License Scheduler' product, monitor only necessary features instead of all

Hello, sometimes, we encounter slowness (freezes) on LSF jobs scheduling due to big slowness in licenses monitoring (lmstat) from License Scheduler because license features used for some resources under LS management are part of license services m...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 6 Delivered

COGNOS: AMAZON REDSHIFT INTEGRATION IMPROVMENT

The idea is to improve the integration with Redshift so that Connection Pooling do not need to be turned off. We know that connection pooling (i.e. the reuse of database connections for subsequent report executions) with Amazon Redshift leads to r...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Cell history

Feature Suggestion: Cell History Tracking Description: Enhance the user experience by allowing users to right-click on a cell and select "Cell History" to view the history of that cell. This feature would display: Previous Values: A list of past v...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Lineage from SAS-grid should be able to export into Alation with correct representation

Background: SAS files are being scanned from SAS-grid (local file system or git location) and Manta is able to analyse those files to create required lineages in Manta. Now, when we try to export the lineage to Alation we are not able to get any. ...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 8 Delivered