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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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Use decimal function for LIMITKEY value when a partition table is read by DB2 Connector stage of DataStage.

[System]We are planning to transfer data of an old database to a new one using DataStage jobs.Both of the databases are created on DB2 for z/OS.We have two environments. One is a production environment, the other is a rehearsal environment which i...
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Ability to hide Visualizations based on Use Roles

11.1 version offers 4 types of visualization engines. For adhoc users its quite confusing to find which chart type to use. At least RAVE 1 & 2 needs to be hidden from users as we can find the functionality with new 11.1 charts.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Identity Insight Explorer and i2 II plug-in to use the full Liberty authentication framework

THIS IS FOR IBM INFOSPHERE IDENTITY INSIGHT***** We have deployed Identity Insight (II) v9, which uses IBM Liberty and supports the full Liberty framework for authentication. Our II Liberty implementation is configured to use an OpenIdConnect (OID...
about 5 years ago in Identity Insight 5 Not under consideration

[EGO][CLI] - Truncated Consumer Name on egosh alloc list "-l"

Current the consumer name is truncated even with "-l" option. It is extremely inconvenience for user. It is great if user can configure statically or dynamically length of consumer. egosh alloc list -lALLOC CONSUMER CLIENT RGROUP RESOURCE ALLOCATE...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 6.1.1 5 Delivered

Add support for Cascading FlashCopy for COPY command with FASTREP(REQ) - see PTF UI172348

Context: We take daily System Level backups (SLB) of our SAP production environments using the BACKUP SYSTEM utility. We use Incremental FlashCopy to reduce the amount of data that needs to be physically copied to the FlashCopy target volumes and ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 4 Delivered

Looking for full support for Multi-Member Multi-Level Hierarchical Dimension data in Workspace Advanced.

Currently, the support for Multi-Member Multi-Level Hierarchical (TM1) Dimension data seems to be missing or limited to one member at a time in WA. We understand that IBM has committed to “Differences in Cognos Workspace Advanced will be bridged...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Let us use a programming language to control the conversation flow instead of forcing us to use the dialog editor

The main feature of Watson Assistant is to categorize utterances and extract entities from them. Currently, the only way to use this feature is to edit the dialog using the UI provided on IBM cloud. It would be nice to have access to the main feat...
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Add macro current year in Default Selection property of Value Prompt object

In Cognos 10.2.1 Fixpack 6 in Report Studio:1. Using Crosstab I can add the following member year 2015 in Row:[Cube].[Year_Dimension].[Year_Hierarchy].[Level_Year]->:[TM].[Cube].[Year_Dimension].[@MEMBER].[2015]2. But if I want to add "current ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Viewing of corrupted pages by SELECTing of catalog.

DB2 doesn't allow viewing of corrupted pages by SELECTing of catalog (like V$DATABASE_BLOCK_CORRUPTION in Oracle). The current workaround is:1) Execution of offline db2dart 2) OR the online INSPECT.
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

IBM MDM with AWS RDS: Support other AWS RDS databases in the future such as DB2, AWS RDS Open DB support, Postgres, MySQL.

This is second part of the orignial idea: MDMSEAE-I-129 submitted by Sowjanya Tumuluru (stumuluru@ainq.com): Part 1: We are constantly getting a new requirement from many customers to use IBM MDM with AWS RDS Database. We would like to inquire whe...
about 5 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration