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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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Comments added with a REST API call

We would like to automate as many functionalities we can, but so far we've not found a way to add a comment. In the Activity log (e.g. for a business term) in the UI there's an opportunity for user to write a comment - but how to do it with REST API?
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Providing a new HPU parameter so that we can chose the number of BSAM buffers for SORTIN.

When unloading and sorting data due to ORDER BY option, HPU reads data from tablespace and write it to DFSORT SORTIN dataset via QSAM with BUFNO=60, that is a default. In the environment where zHPF is enabled, DFSORT has used BSAM for SORTIN since...
about 6 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 4 Delivered

chat based field

Sometime when multiple people are working on an Object they would like to provide the feedback. can there be a field like chat based . so that in that field only they can add comments.
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 5 Delivered

PA Cell Comment feature enhancement

Comment is a very useful feature for PA users, especially to maximize centralised interaction. This can be a powerful feature to differentiate with other analytics product offerings. However cell commenting feature is quite limited. As business pa...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Soft deletion of Integrations from the Assistant UI resulting in inability to create/re-create integrations with the same name.

Currently, as the integrations get 'soft-deleted' from UI, this enhancement avoids the time-consuming manual process of hard-deleting the integration from database(DB) every-time an integration needs to be re-created by the customer. The best poss...
7 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Submitted

Manta COBOL scanner support to ignore the comments between REMARKS and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION

Why is it useful? We have some legacy COBOL files that errors out with parsing error since it follows a different coding pattern for comments. The comments are included between REMARKS. and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION in COBOL program. Currently, Manta d...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

MDX comment in Subset Editor

Hello all, I would like to continue to have the ability to comment the MDX expressions in PAW. I am used to be able to comment MDX expressions in my subsets from the TM1 Architect. Also it is very interesting for the business department. There are...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Display Name on Actual @Mention Comment

When adding a comment mention you can search by First Name Last Name/Display Name. When the comment is actually logged, it defaults to UserName which in a lot of orgs is a userID/ alphanum string. This makes it difficult to remember who you're col...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Functionality already exists

Cobol Scanner should recover when * is found column 72 of COBOL code

At my organization, some COBOL programs in production import copybooks, and those copybooks may themselves include other copybooks. For example, the program flow might look like: olila12p.cob → DPBAUTW0.cpy → DPSINSCC.cpy However, the Manta COBOL ...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Configure cube viewer to repeat member names on each row and column

https://jsw.ibm.com/browse/WORKSPACE-16064 Currently stacked cube views in PAW merge element names across the header column. However when combined with specific column alignment, the cube view headers move away from the data set. For the attached ...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration