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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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Export the performance metrics has limitations in selecting metric ID's it allows only 8

monitor subscription performance metricIDs 107,108,109,118,1504,1104,1303,2402,2403,204,205,206,2101,207,208,209,216,2301; You can also export – below is the sample command export subscription performance snapshot name IIGTEST metricIDs 107,108,… ...
7 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Smart Split Data Modeling

When selecting to split a date item, allow for the ability to select a start of year date (e.g. calendar 1/2/2025 vs other (e.g. fiscal year 10/1/2024). In addition, add options to allow for selecting quarter. Quarter would be generated as a numbe...
29 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

output F-values and Chi-square values in DataAudit.

Currently, when the response variable is continuous and the predictor variables are also continuous, correlation coefficients, T-values, and importance are available in DataAudit. Sorting by correlation coefficient makes it easy to find variables ...
29 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

An NLG (Natural Language Generation) Customization Studio for Watson in Cognos

Create a dedicated "NLG Studio" within Cognos Analytics that allows administrators and business users to customize the tone, terminology, and key metrics used in Watson's automated insights. Users could create and save custom narrative templates f...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Submitted

service level backup for openpages

would need automated service level backup for open pages alone so in cases where there are multiple services being consumed and a cluster level backup might loose progress in restoration, scenario 1:customer is using openpages and cognos but two d...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas 0 Submitted

FIPS 140-2 Level 2 encryption key

Currently, Planning Analytics on Cloud supports FIPS 140-2 Level 1. The minimum security requirement is FIPS 140-2 Level 2.
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Dashboard Features

1. Can the Dashboard report be scheduled? To be emailed to Inbox 2. Can a dashboard report output be exported/scheduled to run in Excel? So that it can be attached to email delivery method
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

onmode -I <error No> should have an optional flag to automagically turn off the trapping

Real world, intermittently I see a 208 error from the app layer, typically in batches of 100 or so and normally at inconvenient times. This would allow me to set the onmode -I and walk away until the error trips and not having the server swamped w...
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

SYSPROC.DB2LK_GENERATE_DDL to become a supported and documented feature and to match db2look

We are using db2 LUW V11.5M8FP0_SB35599 on Linux It is a DPF database. We are using the following 2 db2 tools to generate the DDL of the same database: 1) db2look 2) SYSPROC.DB2LK_GENERATE_DDL - the command used for db2look is the following: db2lo...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 1 Submitted

Fix Download of Manta exports when the export is large

Background When a user exports a large repository, the workflow completes successfully and the export text files are generated. However, downloading the resulting ZIP file often fails initially due to a timeout enforced by the load balancer (which...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted