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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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Enable addition of JVM arguments via Cognos Configuration tool for TLS 1.2 updates

As part of TLS 1.2 set-up, (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/connection-sql-server-fails-when-server-configured-use-tls-12-or-connecting-sql-server-2016), JVM arguments need to be added. Post these changes, the Cognos Configuration tool should be...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to keep Data Sets in Query Server memory

There are times when Data Sets do not deliver desired performance. This is apparent on the first run of the Data Set based dashboards when Data Sets are large. The underlying technology is file-based columnar data store Apache Parquet where files ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Save data to a CSV file available to preview with the project-lib library in R

According CPD doc ( https://www.ibm.com/support/producthub/icpdata/docs/content/SSQNUZ_current/wsj/analyze-data/project-lib-r.html#save-data ), user can use R project-lib to save data as a asset, but the file is serialized and not available for pr...
over 5 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Read data by sourcing regardless of a local lim

Dear I want to explain the customer's request. Here is an execution server with a lim daemon. On this execution server, the customer wants to send queries to another cluster.(In this case, the LSF_LIM_PORT of both clusters is the same, because it ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Upload file to code must be automatic

Actually I have a problem with loading data to notebook. Although I followed the constructions here. but the problem still occurs and gives me this error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
over 5 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Functionality already exists

Allow to JOIN even when data types are different.

We can't choose columns as join key when they have different data types. For example we have two csv files as below. FirstName.csv ID, FirstName 1, taro 2, hanako LastName.csv ID, LastName 1, yamada 2, sato When we create DR flow with FirstName.cs...
over 5 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

PAX exploration not able to retrieve the data after disconnection

One of our user tried to create Exploration views and after sometime the sheet got disconnected with the instance at the back-end. User tried to re-connect the sheet but it shows blank in the dimension bar and in the view itself. After creating a ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add easier support for Parquet/Orc to Datastage 11.7

Currently, in order to enable support for Parquet/Orc formats, customers must download 23 jar files with little to no direction on where to get them, then create 2 classpaths manually in environments. The well-intentioned current instructions to d...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 1 Delivered

Ability to create DQ rules for a parquet resource set.

We would need the ability to create DQ rule for all parquet files in one folder and not create DQ rules for each file one by one, the files are partitioned files.
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

Allowing extensions for preferences

on 11.4 workbench, we had a way to enable extension by overriding "extendableInline=true" as indicated bellow. In 11.6 workbench, we tried the same but were not able to get around the restriction. We are in upgrade process and this has become a st...
over 5 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration