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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.

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Need easy to use backup/restore solution for text search indexes

Rollforward recovery, PIT recovery with text search indexes is a manual and error prone process. It often means recreating the text indexes to match the data in the tables. This is extremely time consuming.The Db2 for z/OS solution for text indexe...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release

Allow Status Updates on Homepage

The user community has asked that we display a message somewhere on our homepage to reflect the datetime of when data was last pulled from our ERP system. We have the datetime available in a cube already. I would like to display that on the homepa...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Provide sample JCLs of DSN1COPY and CHECK DATA for DB2 release migration step

Provide sample JCLs of DSN1COPY and CHECK DATA in SDSNSAMP library for migration step 2: Verify the integrity of DB2 table spaces, of the DB2 11 Installation and Migration Guide. I opened a PMR 93407,122,000 for this problem. The number was flagge...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Publish Assets from WKC to Watson Studio consistently

Follwing the idea, that data assets have been added and documented in WKC and then pushed to projects that need this data assets, there is a great gap in functionality: when pushing an asset a second (or third...) time to a project, e.g. after the...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Control Flow Guard (CFG) not enabled

BM Infosphere Data Replication Management Console, does not have Control Flow Guard (CFG) enabled. Control Flow Guard is a security feature which helps protect applications against memory corruption vulnerabilities by restricting where an applicat...
almost 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

64-bit driver for MarkLogic

We need to be able to report on data that is stored in MarkLogic and requesting IBM to enhance the platform with 64-bit driver for MarkLogic.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Provide live/refresh schedule connection types to excel file uploads feature and allow users to create prompts in Dashboards

Releasing many newer versions every year since 2015 is waste without thinking of adding live/schedule refresh options for excel file uploads like Tableau. This is where Cognos is mainly lagging behind because many of the excel customers creating t...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Reports should be able to save output as data set (dataset), just like HTML, Excel, PDF, CSV etc

A report should be able to save output as a data set. Run a report to a data set should be just as simple as running a report to Excel, PDF etc. Whilst the functionality exists to create a new data set report from an existing report, this means we...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Planned for future release

Provide an option to Disable users ability to use SUBSET Editor in a websheet that is being viewed in a PAW Book.

We have complicated websheets for data entry and we do not want users to be able to edit the SUBETS that are being used as drop down selectors from a SUBNM function.
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

SSL encryption enablement with data direct ODBC driver for DB2 Federation Server to SAP HANA

We need SSL encryption enabled with data direct ODBC driver for DB2 Federation Server to SAP HANA. This is the response from IBM Support team. Federation server doesn't support SSL with SAP HANA ODBC drivers. To connect to SAP HANA, customer has t...
about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release