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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    Enable query results to be exported in Excel (.xlsx) format in addition to CSV.

    Currently, users in Query Workspace can only download query results in CSV format. Many customers request the ability to also export results as Excel files (.xlsx), as Excel is the most commonly used format for internal reporting, data sharing, an...
    about 1 month ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

    Spark job to be able to access, read and write on external database without the credentials being exposed anywhere (instance, logs, job metadata, etc…)

    We want to create a job on a Spark instance of the Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark that runs a Spark application reading from and writing to an Exasol database. To enable database access, we need to pass our user credentials into the job....
    about 1 month ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

    System temporality slowness on Db2wh

    System temporal tables are part of the type two of slow changing dimensions, this assists in tracking changes that happens on the data by preserving historical accuracy. These tables have two tables, The BASE table and the HISTORY table. When reco...
    5 days ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted

    Improvements to the Jobs dashboard, including grouping by folder in a single click show the Jobs execution information

    We are entering a migration from DataStage 11.7 to DataStage Anywhere, control plane in IBM Cloud and Data Place in OCI/On Premise instances. Improvements to the Jobs dashboard, including grouping by folder in a single click show the Jobs executio...
    2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

    enable text extraction (WDU) on GPU

    Watsonx.ai shall allow running of text extraction (Watson Data Understanding - WDU) on GPU for faster text extraction performance also. (Note - idea elicitated throughout a TEL engagement with the customer)
    9 days ago in watsonx.ai 1 Submitted

    Enable queryValue() and queryValues() for Report Queries and Data Items

    As of today, both macro functions queryValue() and queryValues() can only be used with direct source paths (e.g., package or data module). It would be extremely beneficial for report authors if these functions could also reference report queries a...
    5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

    Support Request: Integration of cpd-cli Backup and Restore with Dell NetWorker PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM)

    To meet a critical customer requirement, we are seeking support for the integration of the cpd-cli backup and restore functionality with the Dell NetWorker PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM), which is the customer’s homologated enterprise backup sol...
    2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

    Data gate instance be able to write on Object Storage which require security certificate (Data Gate for watsonx)

    The client wants to adopt an Object Storage (S3) technology with the use of security certificate to store data synchronized by Data Gate for watsonx (DG4WX). Currently the DG4WX doesn't support security certificate to access, read and write data o...
    9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

    Let Capture build the transaction message with non-LOB columns first and LOB columns last instead of in strict column sequence order.

    Please consider changing Capture to build transaction messages with all non-LOB data first, then add on the LOB data after all other non-LOB data no matter what the sequence numbers. This would prevent the risk of splitting a message on non-LOB da...
    about 1 month ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Submitted

    Allow to execute stored procedures from the Explore Objects list or RUN SQL

    Application developers and DBAs execute stored procedures directly from Data Studio, Toad for DB2, DBeaver etc. interfaces but it is not possible in DB2 Admin Foundation therefore not very helpfull.
    about 1 month ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

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