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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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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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Enable the OpenPages platform to have documents associated with GRC process stored in an external platform to avoid duplication and point file storage solutions

Core to this idea is that the workflow, business process and data capture is mastered in OpenPages, but the associated documentation is stored in an enterprise content management solution (example IBM's Enterprise Content Management). This could b...
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Default File Name for PDF

While saving a PDF file, the default name is not appearing same as report name, where as all the other options has got that functionality.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Supporting all datatypes in parquet/avro/orc file format, we are really need it on parquet for sure

As of today these “date”, “decimal/numeric”, “timestamp” data types in parquet file format not supported by Datastage 11.5 or 11.7, which is required for critical data migration project.And now we are converting above data type to different format...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Delivered

SETNET32 automatically maintain the SQLHOSTS file

Behaviour in SDK 4.1Fc1 and TC1 is changed . In previous version of windows SDK connectivity details were taken from registry ( setnet32 updates registry) but in SDK 4.10 Fc1/TC1 there is need to setup sqlhosts file apart from setting setnet32 . W...
about 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Installing SPSS license by creating manually license file (lservrc)

With SPSS Statistics v 28.0.1.1 it seems to be not possible anymore to install SPSS license by manually copy the lservrc-file to the SPSS product installation directory. The user needs admin rights in order at least for first time push the license...
about 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics - Upload Group Membership

Within PAW, there is the ability to upload users via a CSV file and upload groups via a CSV file. However, assigning users to PAW groups is a manual exercise. Requesting the ability to upload group membership (i.e. mapping of which users belong to...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Filter completed/exited jobs with unusual high resource usage

Many times we would find jobs with unusual resource usage, like very high swap usage or mem usage or too big cpu seconds and it gets captured in lsf.acct or lsf.event files.There is no utility available to filter out such exception jobs other than...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Add the Open XLS, XLSX funktion in Reports as it was with the IE Browser enabled

HI Team, cusotmers now have to do 3 clicks instead of 1. Then you run for example an ADHoc report and choose XLS oder XLSX then you can only save the file and openit afterwards. a option to open it directly without saving like IE did this would b...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Stronger encryption for usernames and passwords in CDC metadata

Currently the usernames and passwords are not strongly encrypted in the CDC metadata or in the Access Server files. Many customers in secure environments would like stronger encryption to be used.
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration
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TRACKMOD alternative

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When making an incremental backup, DB2 does a complete scan per tablespace for changes. Even when only one row has changed in the tablespace. This makes incremental backups quite lengthy. Oracle on the other hand has the "block change tracking" fe...
about 9 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration