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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.

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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Read-only mode

In some situations it would be helpful set single cells / widgets / sheets / workbooks as "read only". (Do not allow data entry).
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Formatting on Planning Analytics not applied as default format in Cognos Analytics.

Problem statement: A solution was created by a US team in Planning Analytics with a set of percentages, the data was then vizualised in Cognos Analytics. We have user all over the world, and users have set the content language to their local langa...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Externel table support for: parquet, orc (big data formats)

Currently a DB2 external table support file formats like: CSV nad TXT; and there is also support for external cloud locations like S3, COS, Azure. The option to load data directly from a cloud data lake in hadoop file formats like: parquet, orc, a...
over 4 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Exporting Data tables to excel or pdf

Hello, It would be very helpful for clients if they can export Data tables into excel or pdf documents. Currently you get an error message in the PDF or excel document.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

AVI Stage incorrect Lat/Long calculation

THR is using AVI stage for CASS certification of address and lat-long information. We are seeing an issue with data for Latitude and longitude Columns. Different addresses are returning same latitude and longitude values. We have verified a sample...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Under review

GUI in the form of a crosstab to quickly scan data connections versus permissions, roles versus capabilities

When we need to quickly monitor/ review for example the setting of certain permissions for all dataconnections (we have about 70+), we need to open for each dataconnection the properties, go to the permission tab and write down on a separate sheet...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change Isolation Level to UR on Read-Only DBs / Tablespaces / Partitions

Databases, Tablespaces, and Partitions can be started in Db2 in read-only (RO) mode. This allows user transactions to access data in these objects only for read (SELECT). Therefore no modification to this data can be made. However, when accessing ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Audit Data Volume from Reports

Request the ability to audit the volume of data returned from requests (queries, reports, analysis, etc).
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Run Metadata import for SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Service) Data Source

Add the ability to run MDI on the given data source. IKC supports some import metadata types, but not this one specifically.
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Run Metadata import for SAP BOBJ Data Source

Add the ability to run MDI on the given data source. IKC supports some import metadata types, but not this one specifically.
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists