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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.

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.

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Making Datastage Checksum stage more flexible with ability to pick column separators, at the moments its pipe by default

We want the datastage checksum stage to have the flexibility to chose the column delimiter(or keep it blank), when we want to generate md5sum by concatenating multiple source columns. right now the stage by default uses pipe | as a filed delimiter...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Cannot copy/paste from Team content to Users' My content

I didn't find a way to copy a report from Team content to a User My content ... in v10 I just had to click checkbox in front of the report, hit copy button, then go in the security, browse to find the user My folder, go in and Paste. Now the only ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Key Pair Authentication for snowflake

I am using odbc connector to pull in data from snowflake db to create a process on architect. I provide user name and password to connect to snowflake on odbc setup. Snowflake team insisting on key pair authentication rather to provide user name a...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Creation of the cache need to be a step of the running objects

The creation of the cache is a separate step for the objects that require a prompt to be executed, this new step use a slot of the background process. That means that all the "number" of the current and past activities are not correct, every repor...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support S3 Buckets with Object Locks

Db2 already has an integration that supports directly writing/reading to/from to S3 buckets. Unfortunately this integration currently does not support buckets that use object locks. In such a case the following error pops up in the diagnostic log:...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Allow actions in 'ERROR' status to be automatically rescheduled

It occasionally happens that an action will encounter an error because an incompatible utility is already executing on a given object. For example, when a separate RUNSTATS utility on an object attempts to execute while a REORG on that same object...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Automation Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Output tabular data of a query into Excel format

In Cognos BI or versions prior to Cognos Analytics 11.x.x there was the option to run the output of a query during design time into an Excel format which made it easy for developers to see, massage and analyze the data as they go. Even though it i...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Add the Go Sale dimensional sample model to the on demand version

Hello,As dimensional modelling and development is an important part of Cognos Analytics, I don't understand why there is no dimensional sample model on the on demand version. This would help people to understand, test and train on the dimensionnal...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

New Database Parameter to Open Db2 for LUW Backup Files in Read-Only Mode for Deleting It

Refer to case TS005462380 for more details. Due to the rise in hackers targeting backup data files, our company has implemented Retention Lock on all backup files, including Db2 database backup files and archive log files, by changing the file per...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Audit Info: Capture failed login user id in Splunk logs.

CPD Epic: ICPD-1672 In it's current state, CP4D audit logs do not capture failed login attempts user id's in logs that are forwarded to Splunk. This puts us in violation of GIS Audit policy non-compliance. Additional info available in IBM Support ...