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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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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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Looking for full support for Multi-Member Multi-Level Hierarchical Dimension data in Workspace Advanced.

Currently, the support for Multi-Member Multi-Level Hierarchical (TM1) Dimension data seems to be missing or limited to one member at a time in WA. We understand that IBM has committed to “Differences in Cognos Workspace Advanced will be bridged...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 should allow offloaded backup of SMS tablespace to Tivoli FlashCopy Manager

I have an AVP customer who has a 3TB database upgraded from DB2 v8.x. Most user data tables are in SMS tablespaces. They wish to use Tivoli FlashCopy Manager to take database backup and reduce the time for database restore. However, for SMS tables...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

odbc support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1

When use redbrick ODBC on Red Hat Enterprise linux 7.1 we are getting ERROR ** (10127) Data type -8 out of range. (SQL-WS000) when we try to query char type. All works well on numeric data types. That is the reason we decided that we need updated ...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

IzODA MDS - RACF CHECK VSAM and/or Sequential Datasets Before Ingestion

IzODA / MDS team,the MDS component of IzODA checks DB2 internal security to validate access permissions, and schedules a PSB to validate IMS permissions before accessing the data. We are left with sequential and vsam files with no auth pre-check i...
about 5 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Import Group journals in Cognos Controller using CSV

Please, provide the ability to import Group Journals using Type of Journal = G (Group) in IBM Cognos Controller using CSV files from Transfer / External Data / Import General Journals. G option is allowed to be used but it does not work. It will...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

read only root file system

Follow security best practice (CIS) and mount images as read-only (a read only root file system via readOnlyRootFilesystem: true). Then mounted volumes from outside the container could be used for any data that needs to be persistent.
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

All pods from helm test should end in a "Completed" state and not an "Error" state.

As the installer of Watson Assistant on Cloud Pak for Data, seeing anything that says "Error" is concerning and encourages me to open up a support case with IBM. A pod ending up in an "Error" status suggests that something has gone wrong in the te...
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Should be possible to configure TCC Logging output

Currently, TCC based applications create a logs folder underneath the TCC Application and always log data there. This isn't create in a container environment. We would like to be able to configure the logging, ideally to be emitted to console so i...
about 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Option for replacing/updating packages without breaking existing usages of the package when importing content.

There is need to update a package and a Dashboard (only these two objects in a big folder structure) in a PROD-Environment by moving, copying or migrating from a DEV-Environment. The updated package is used in many more Dashboards and Reports, but...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Include Graphframes Spark package in CPD

Graphframes package for Spark provides the capabilities of both the GraphX and the Spark DataFrames. The recent Apache Spark 3.0 release has several enhancements with respect to the features enablement and performance, especially, for the Spark Da...
about 5 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration