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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.

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Let the MDM Docker containers use environment settings from outside the image

The current Docker installable containers use static environment settings for for example database server, ldap server, kafka server, etc. This means we need to create an image for every environment increasing the possibility to have different cod...
about 5 years ago in Master Data Management 4 Not under consideration

IA Data Rule Set

End users view is that when creating DRS (data rule set) based on Data Rule(s) then DRS would just group existing Data Rules and execute those in a bundle.
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

8.2 Workflow End Stages - set Notify Oversight to FALSE by default

Currently when editing a workflow and either changing an existing stage to an end stage, or creating a new end stage, the default setting for Notify Oversight is TRUE. This setting is not expanded by default so it is easy to spot the email is set ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Not under consideration

Search feature in "Create Data groups" like in Report studio "set limits"

If a data item has more than 32000 objects and you want to create data groups in dashboard. its limiting to 32000 items and if you want to use items that are beyond the initial pull you cannot find them.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

VLDB - 358 Eliminate the need to define a set number of 32k and 4k tablespaces in the work file database

Instead of defining a set number of 4k and 32k tablespaces, it would simplify the process if we could allocate a set amount of space to the work database and allow DB2 to dynamically allocate the tablespaces as needed. As the page size requirement...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Automate process of creating new account and adding this to forms, reports, control tables and so on.

Customer has quite a lot of forms and reports and every time a new account is set up there is a lot of time spent on adding this account to forms, reports, control tables and so on. It would be good if there was a way of perhaps selecting where th...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to create DQ rules for a parquet resource set.

We would need the ability to create DQ rule for all parquet files in one folder and not create DQ rules for each file one by one, the files are partitioned files.
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

Allowing extensions for preferences

on 11.4 workbench, we had a way to enable extension by overriding "extendableInline=true" as indicated bellow. In 11.6 workbench, we tried the same but were not able to get around the restriction. We are in upgrade process and this has become a st...
over 5 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server .Net Provider Support For Informix Types TEXT, BYTE and BOOLEAN

We are in the process of moving from .Net Framework to .Net Core. We currently use the Informix Client SDK ADO.Net drivers to access Informix databases using ADO.Net. When we tried to migrate to the IBM Data Server Driver (IBM.Data.DB2.dll) we fou...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Do not create Exception Set and table if there are 0 rows going to Exception Stage

We are using the Exception Stage in our datastage jobs to capture rejected rows so we don't have bad data going into our data warehouse and to avoid our jobs from failing due to bad data. Using the exception stage instead of using a flat file allo...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration