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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Allow to JOIN even when data types are different.

We can't choose columns as join key when they have different data types. For example we have two csv files as below. FirstName.csv ID, FirstName 1, taro 2, hanako LastName.csv ID, LastName 1, yamada 2, sato When we create DR flow with FirstName.cs...
over 5 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Support for DRDA connection to IIAS

Hello, we use IBM Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS V 2.1 We would like to load data from 'IBM Integrated Analytics System - IIAS' to Db2 z/OS and IDAA. To accomplish this task IDAA Loader has to connect to IIAS which at this time is no...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

PAX exploration not able to retrieve the data after disconnection

One of our user tried to create Exploration views and after sometime the sheet got disconnected with the instance at the back-end. User tried to re-connect the sheet but it shows blank in the dimension bar and in the view itself. After creating a ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show more lines for the expression in the data item properties pane

The expression that is showed in the properties pane is just one line height. It would be nice if there was a possibility to set text wrapping (just like in Excel) so that there are more lines of the expression visible. This prevents that you don’...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Use less white space for data items in the query to get a better overview

Data items / query items has too much white space/spacing between the items. This results that it is difficult to overview larger queries for report creators. Cognos version Query items displayed without scrolling 11.1.4 21 11.1.1 39 8.4.1 47 We u...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Select total data item (incl. brackets) by double click in an expression

If you want to change an expression and double click on the data item name, only the word is selected without the brackets. Most of the time you want to delete or change by another data item. In that case you have to remove the brackets separately...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show more characters in the detail filters window

Under the detail filters, for each filter expression only the first 50 characters are shown. There is more than enough space to make more characters visible, especially in these time where full HD is the default sreen resolution. We know the possi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Option to collapse all queries

In bigger reports with a lot of queries (>10), the queries a shown by default unfolded. In these situations you want the same collapse options as in the data source to collapse all unfolded item once.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to set the selected approval hierarchy in the application

The hierarchy is now always collapsed. I have users that are annoyed with the fact that they always have to expand the workflow nodes to get to where they are to work. Some users are wrong and enter data at higher levels instead of the lowest, bec...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

ODBC driver support for HTML datatype

Extension to the ODBC driver to have support for extended data types such as HTML. This issue is with all platforms and all CSDK versions. However, for your reference, we have tried this on below CSDK and IDS version.Database Version:Informix Vers...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration