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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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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.

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Export data from Dashboard Visualization data area

Being able to see the data used to generate a visualization in the Visualization Data area is nice. However, when debugging a visualization it would be nice to export that data to Excel to examine the data more easily.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Enable/Disable replication (InSync) via IDAA HA Loader

If you enable an already loaded table, the following steps are carried out: ○ The data in the accelerator-shadow table is deleted. ○ The accelerator-shadow table is reset to the InitialLoadPending state. ○ Query acceleration is turned off f...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 3 Delivered

Cognos integration with Databricks

Support Databricks Spark as a data source for Cognos Analytics
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 6 Delivered

Administrators can limit resource usage on a per project or per user basis

In CP4D 2.5, any user can create data transfer projects and analytics projects, and there is no limitation about creating projects. In addition, there is no way to limit usage of resources per project or user. ("resource" means disk space, memory,...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Delivered

Add the ability to disable/enable individual Reporting Periods

Customers that have been using OpenPages for a very long time sometimes have a large number of Reporting periods - not all the data from all the Reporting Periods needs to be available to users through the UI - e.g. when you are creating Quarterly...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Delivered

Data Quality APIs

APIs for DQ. Accessing definitions from outside WKC, pushing definitions into WKC, etc.
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

As a SPSS developer you need the option to work with "timestamps with milliseconds" since the data records are only uniquely described by the milliseconds in some sources.

When creating a "Data Asset" node, you can select the table and "preview" the content. Here you can see timestamp values with milliseconds (e.g. 1986-07-28T12:45:52.402Z). After the "Data Asset" node is created, the "Preview" shows the timestamp w...
almost 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Delivered

Add data formatting options for data modules

Need ability to format the fields in data modules.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

trim_char_to_varchar feature for FlexRep

Hi we have requirement to replicate data from db2 to cockroach db. db2 we have char data type columns and respective columns in cockrachdb are varchar. So we would need to have trim_char_to_varchar system parameter at the datastore level in FlexRe...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Delivered

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. ...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 8 Delivered