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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.

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Ability to sort objects by type

In previous version of Cognos when viewing the continence of a folder could be sorted by type, so all packages would appear together, then by name. In Cognos Analytics all object are sorted alphabetically by name, or by modified date, regardless o...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Is there any way to give permissions to only check logs and see jobs in designer and director for Datastage & Quality stage super operator?

IBM DataStage & Quality stage super operator (Super Operator and Operator): users the ability to run and schedule jobs, view full job logs, and view jobs and objects using the Director and Designer clients, respectively for the above User role...
5 months ago in DataStage 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to view attributes in PAX or PAW Cube Viewer (not just via hierarchies).

The cube viewer in PAX has the ability to “show attributes” in a cube view (see attached screen shot). Can this functionality be added to the regular cube viewer in PAW and a PAX Exploration?
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Faster Data Clear

We would like the ability to clear data in a cubes faster than we can today. Today, a ViewClear simply writes a zero into every populated cell in the view. In most use cases we are simply attempting to clear an entire scenario and reload. So in ou...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Add the ability for more granular IKC user roles

Today, IKC has administrator, owner or editor roles. At large customers, various users need to perform various tasks and they are very cautious of data security. The customer would like to restrict the quantity of administrators. But some tasks li...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 11 Functionality already exists

Create online hierarchical DDL command

Currently, we have either the DDL or GEN commands to view the object definition. We would like GEN to be online (currently batch only) or have a new command. The action should produce the data in an online format (temporary dataset) for viewing or...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Export Recommender results

User Story: As a chatbot developer, I want to have the Watson Assistant Recommender export the results (to CSV file or otherwise) so that I can easier work with the results to increase the effectiveness of my chatbot. This export would be very h...
about 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Functionality already exists

Backup PAW books

One of our highly valued customers, Aer Lingus, have a planning analytics in the cloud solution about to go live with phase 1 of the solution. This is a very large project with at least 45 users. On PAW, there are nearly 60 books currently. This f...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Display of Cognos Content from navigation folder as 10.2.2 by type of content

we found a different behavior when you navigate on team content folders. On Cognos BI 10.2.2, the content (inside folders) is order by type and then by name or date, it is easy to see the difference between reports, subfolders, view, dashboard. On...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

CP4D - Need Super Operator Role for Cloud pak for Data (DataStage) Projects

We need a Super Operator role in CP4D (DataStage) projects which is equivalent to Legacy DataStage role. Please find the following tasks which Super Operator can perform. Cloud Pak for Data Super Operator (DataStage) Can perform the following task...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists