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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Add Nodejs to DSX Notebooks

Node, Cloudant and Compose users are likely to be interested in DSX and Notebooks, but may not know what they need to know (Spark, Python, R, etc) to give it a try. Node together with PixieDust make for a very welcoming getting started experience ...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 6 Not under consideration

Log Report to enhance for import from staging table

Enhance Log Report to show information e.g. company code in the Data File box for import from staging table. In the current version this box is empty.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

advanced filters in data modules not available

In order for data modules to be a suitable replacement for Framework Manager packages, we will require the ability to add advanced filters to tables objects within data modules. Currently, all that can be done is to pick from a list of values. I b...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide checksums for Fixpacks

From a security perspective it would be very helpful to be able to validate that the code downloaded from FixCentral is correct and has not been tampered with (or corrupted during download). Please publish md5 or sha2 checksums for Fixpack downloa...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Data driven text visualization

On dashboards there is often a need to annotate or comment on the data being displayed. For example, I may wish to indicate in a comment what percentage of my employees meet a certain criteria. This could be accomplished with a hard-coded string i...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SetUseActiveSandboxProperty should persist for Process and any child processes

Just like the way Temporary views and subsets now works where the objects persist until the end of the process chain/transaction, setting SetUseActiveSandboxProperty(1) in the parent should keep this enabled through all child processes. When runni...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance drill in Maps for a more intuitive workflow

Use case:Currently in a map, if you have the same items represented in the region layer and the points layer for example country and city, and you drill into a specific area based on a navigation path that applies to both layers (ex: Country, City...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Need access control on shared notebooks

I have a notebook that contains sensitive material that must have appropriate access control. I would like to share that notebook with specific team members. There are essentially two ways to share the content: sharing the project and sharing a no...
about 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

High CPU utilisation in CF structure xxxx_SCA

We have noticed that the structure DB2P_SCA in production the reason for high CPU consumption in the Coupling Facility is. Our reporting proofs this behaviour. We opened a case and did a deeper dive with IBM’s experts into. At the end we can say t...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ADMIN_CMD to support INGEST and INGEST SET

Tech Note describes how to use INGEST via ADMIN_CMD:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22006386 but using INGEST via ADMIN_CMD is not supported by IBM (see TS000004839 and TS000004925). In addition to support INGEST also INGEST SET c...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 2 Not under consideration