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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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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

Native Stored Procedure debugging for SQLPL

Hello! This is RFE(request for Enhancement) to deploy IBM DSM for our environment. My company Ford requires to add "Native Stored Procedure" debugging for SQLPL, which is required as high priority to support out business. the second requirement...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Export dataflows involving File System into Alation

At my organization, the Informatica Power Center is used to process critical data elements(CDE) from different Applications relying on several technologies like Oracle, MSSQL, DB2 LUW, PWX,NRDB2,Salesforce, FileSystem,PWX Db2 ZOS, Netezza. Data Go...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Delivered

Data validation in a skill when data source is a list uploaded from excel/csv

We would like to see an data validation option provided for a list data uploaded through an excel file. Following are the possible validations that could warn user when an incorrect is being uploaded Validation during file upload: A skill should...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Delivered

Administrator can choose to restrict users from creating new projects

We are considering the explosion of projects in CP4D. In CP4D 2.5, any user can create data transfer projects and analytics projects, and there is no limitation about creating projects. Our customers want to manage their projects tightly, because ...
over 5 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Delivered

Data Module refresh/update data

Currently when you want to update the data for a table in a data module you need to drag it on top of the existing table. This is clumsy. If you are updating from a shared data module the work done in the share module this is lost in the refresh
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

In the 'License Scheduler' product, monitor only necessary features instead of all

Hello, sometimes, we encounter slowness (freezes) on LSF jobs scheduling due to big slowness in licenses monitoring (lmstat) from License Scheduler because license features used for some resources under LS management are part of license services m...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 6 Delivered

Requesting an option to control whether the job (high availability load) should run or fail if an accelerator is unavailable

In today's environment, HALOAD job fails if one of the accelerators is unavailable, and it impedes table data refresh on all accelerators in the job. Allowing HALOAD job to continue execution by skipping the unavailable accelerator will mitigate t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Delivered

Addition of loop formula for import spec design on CC Web

Controller Web cannot currently replicate the Controller Classic client for loading data that crosses multiple columns. For example, where a data file contains 12 columns relating to 12 months of a budget file, this can be loaded on Controller Cla...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Delivered

PAW: drill-through view doesn't allow Set Editor to be used

We created drill-through processes, rules and views to allow users to drill to another view. We found that such drill-through views which are opened as a result of a drill action, do not allow user to open Set Editor in the dimensions of the view....
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered