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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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DB2 Multi-Row Fetch/Insert - COBOL Programming Modell

Customer addressed to IBM that the use of DB2 Multi-Row Fetch/Insert is not well accepted by the developers since it increases the programming complexity a lot and is not ease to use in COBOL. Initial discussions pointed to the already addressed "...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

IBM DataStage Flow Designer REST API - Multiple compile jobs feature

We are looking for a REST API call that perform multiple compile jobs feature (the same feature available into Datastage Designer Client).In the doc (https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSZJPZ_11.7.0/com.ibm.swg.im.iis.ds.fd.doc/topics/...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

High availability for IMS CDC in a SYSPLEX environment

We are currently implementing CDC for IMS in our Production environment. This consists of 2 IMS v15.2 systems running on 2 different LPAR's, in a SYSPLEX. The OS on both are currently z/OS 2.3. CDC for IMS runs on 1 LPAR, replicating the LOGS o...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Submitting development workloads to CP4D from local IntelliJ Ultimate IDE

Our developers use IntelliJ Ultimate as their IDE and would like to be able to submit development workloads from IntelliJ to CP4D to be able to utilize CP4D's hardware resources while still utilizing the features of a fully equipped IDE, e.g. remo...
about 3 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Union all View (or common table expression of a UNION ALL) lead to HSJOIN

Case #0000086 Worked with developer and provided following explanation:When there is a join between a UNION ALL view (or a common table expression of a UNION ALL) to another input (let's named it Z), to be able to utilize index access on the table...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Add "queued" status

When collecting information about current train runs, it happens that tasks are "running" but actually are still waiting for a GPU (see Support Ticket CS2171712). It is hard for a developer to know at which state the task actually is (running or w...
over 4 years ago in Watson Machine Learning 0 Not under consideration

Ability to download / upload Custom Palette

User develops Custom Global Palettes (Manage > Customization > Palette > New custom palette) in DEV environment and creates reports using the custom palettes. User exports new reports from DEV to UAT. Custom Palettes are not included in t...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Workflow Enhancement -- Current Quarter and Year Function

I commonly bump into needing to fill in a drop down value with current year or quarter on a stage transition. I am request the ability for have a [$Current_Year] or [$Current_Quarter] function rather than need to develop a simple trigger to push t...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Update "Recent Cards" on homepage to browse by pathing rather than object ID.

A report is created for a large number of users to consume all through-out the day named Report Alpha. Developers later update Report Alpha without versioning the name of the report so that all email links and links within other user interfaces st...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Roadmap support Oracle RDBMS 12c R2 (12.2)

Oracle is planning to release Oracle RBDMS 12.2 in the first half year of 2016. What is the planning/roadmap for Cognos (and from which version) to support Oracle RDBMS 12c R2 (12.2). I've already contacted Technical support. The answer/suggestion...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration