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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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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.

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Support Automatically Convert Numeric SQL Type(to Decimal or etc) for File Connector Stage to Parquet Format

Problem : We need to migrate data from SQL Server to Parquet Format. One of the data type in the SQL Server is Numeric type. We will run the migration job process using RCP. Workaround : 1. We need to change data type to another type, but we ar...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Ability to append to a file when performing an export

When exporting data to files, every export should be in a different file. And it the business requirement is to have all data in the same file, then it is necessary to do that manually with something external to db2.
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

relationship-type attributes should not open dialog to select relationship

In Persona UI, we would like relationship-type attributes should not open dialog to select relationship but to get list of item names as combobox. The reason is - usability of interface, all data stewards are affected. If you will implement it, it...
about 6 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Allow hierarchy levels to be picked from Planning Analytics (TM1) data source when adding to axes on Cognos dashboards

Currently, only the hierarchy from a TM1 data source can be added to an axis - by default, Level 1 is chosen in a multi-level dimension. A hierarchy level cannot be picked. This hampers the exposing of a desired level within a multi-level hierarchy.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

We would like to have an spec node attribute named, say, "Required rule"

We would like to have an spec node attribute named, say, "Required rule".This spec node attribute should be seen in drop-down list alongside "Validation rule", "String enumeration rule" etc in "Spec editor" screen in mdm ce "Admin UI" (Data Model ...
about 6 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Increased Character Count for Journal Text when doing Import of General Ledger Journal

Using Transfer>External Data>Import General Ledger Journals, there is a character limit of 255 on the journal text. This is very short for a journal text. Also to note, is much shorter than what is allowed if User were to manually create the...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Make the comment fields on the TCR adjustment window configurable so only the number of comment lines required for a particular adjustment are available / visible to the user.

- Having only the comment lines required for the adjustment visible would make filling out the adjustment window straight forward and more efficient for the user since they will only see the required comment fields rather than having to rely on pr...
about 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Not under consideration

Most trivial function: SEARCH!

Cognos Analytics on cloud 11.1 1) I'm at creating a new report. 2) I'm at Report > Queries > Query1 3) when I'm adding filters to the query and I want to choose columns from the data module/package or whatever data source. example: DETAIL FI...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Support for multi-byte string in the "View data" fnction

"View data" in Oracle Connector failed with error "ORA-01406: fetched column value was truncated" when multi-byte string is included in the column referred, although the job execution succeeded.This restriction reduces usability of the product, as...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

CHANGE DATA CAPTURE FOR DB2 z/OS - ONUTILITYACTION parameter

the idea would be to be able to set different values for this parameter ONUTILITYACTION at the subscription level. Today this parameter is set at the CDC agent level. This doesn't allow customers to have different behaviors regarding DB2 z/OS util...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration