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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.

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Pass the dbname in parameter to the view

The Scenario: We use IDMS database and we have a lot of dbname in our organization. The Problem: We have to define a virtual table and a virtual views for all of our dbname. This create a lot of redundant work. Proposed solutions: The possibilitie...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Minimum dependencies for clients

The client libraries and dependencies of Symphony is around 1.4GB, which include dependencies for many languages.We are currently minimizing the size of all projects, so we need a version with the minimum libraries needed to make the client work. ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Future consideration

Add ability to find map dependencies

Before deleting a map, we would like a way to find any other dependent maps. Virtual views that reference the map Web Services that reference the map Virtual tables pointing to other virtual tables on the same (or different) subsystems
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Forward Repair Screen Sort Options

We are looking to have the Forward Repair monitoring screen to be sorted in Date Order so we can easily locate the processing day while viewing the screen. See attached.
about 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Future consideration

Dynamic Children Section in Admin View should include Copy Associated action.

The new Admin View in 8.3 allows us to add the Dynamic Children section, which shows all the child relationships for the object (similar to the "Associations" listings on the left side pane of the old standard UI). This is great as it allows us to...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

REST API for viewing and managing object permissions

Enables users/IT support to find the permissions required to access a folder. Enables automation for configuring object permissions. Deploying permissions as part of a pre-defined Request For Change Verifying/monitoring that permissions are accurate.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow comments for alternate hierarchies

When bringing in an alternate hierarchy to the view, I'm unable to enter any comments
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Semi-responsive cubeviews

!!See attached document to view the screenshots!! Idea Details: Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, PAW allows authors to create books that contains views whose grid are fully responsive (which means that the gri...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Format Aggregation calculation as a Parent

(See attached file to view screenshots) Idea Details: Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, PAW allows users to create calculations that aggregates several members (or the content of a subset). However, the created...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Sorting Hierarchy based on Colour

After exporting planning analytics view to snapshot, hierarchy of elements appears in same format, where we cannot differentiate between parent and child/levels. Please add format to each N level either by using "spaces" or "colours", so that user...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration