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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Data Catalog dynamic IP address frustrates IP address security filters in remote clouds and on-premise systems.

I'm testing the Data Catalog's ability to access a remote(to IBM's cloud) relational database. I provisioned a NoSQL database using AWS RDS service. I wanted to set the AWS security group to only permit access from the IP address used by the Data ...
over 7 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Communicate truncated reports

The setting for Data display row limit (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=settings-data-display-row-limit) applies to Exploration View, Quick Report, and list view. It also affects Custom Report. While this is a very usefu...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DSNHDECP usage

The DSNHDECP modules is currently used in our shop and needs to be created for every DB2 subsystem, or data sharing group. This means that we need to create individual SDSNEXIT libraries for each subsystem. We used to have one SDSNEXIT which held ...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to change data source on an upgraded data set

If you have an upgraded data set which has a data source with multiple data source connections (i.e. DEV and PROD) then when you replace the package you are not prompted to select a data source connection. If you create a new data source in 11.2.1...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Uphold support Phone Number〠 +1{888-481-4730} Toll Free Number&&

Uphold simplifies most of the accounting-related tasks. This versatile software also helps manage payroll, inventory, taxes, invoices, banking and a lot more. The plethora of features it comes with, make Uphold the most sought-after accounting sof...
about 4 years ago in Optim 1 Not under consideration

User added to DQ project able to modify his/her own Role. Very poorly designed breaking security requirements

The user added to DQ project is able to modify Role assigned to him/her. Only the DQ project owner should be allowed to add users and assign Roles. This is a poor design breaking the security rules. This needs an enhancement to change these roles ...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

New Data Class gets added to existing DQ Project

Steps to reproduce 1) Login to Maria Dev 2) Navigate to Data Class 3) Create a new Data Class and publish it   Actual Result - Navigate to settings tab of any existing DQ project. Go to column analysis and search for newly cre...
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Built-in functionality to create process dump

Sometime IBM support need dumps from Symphony processes for troubleshot. It could be usefull to have CLI, API and WEBGUI access to trigger a process dump. Command line example egosh createDump SD /tmp (which should create a dump of SD process and ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration

Enable both on-demand consolidations AND scheduling of database optimizations

Per Case TS006539359 we found out that the BATCHMODE ON/OFF entry found in: Maintain > Configuration > General > Server Preferences tab oddly controls scheduling of both consolidation run timing and whether you can schedule a database opt...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement for DB2 z/OS database backup/recovery

BUSINESS REQUIREMENT Database Recovery is probably the most critical area for DBAs and Application Support teams. As important as new features and performance are, Recovery is absolutely crucial – Production data loss is unacceptable, long databas...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 2 Not under consideration