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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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  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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Enhancing DataStage Monitoring and Debugging Capabilities

One of the critical aspects of monitoring, tuning, or debugging individual jobs or an entire DataStage project is to clearly understand which database system activities are triggered by which stage in a specific DataStage job within a particular D...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Under review

New behavior added to DEC_TO_CHAR_FMT

SELECT CHAR(DECIMAL(1.92,15,2),',') FROM SYSIBM.SYSDUMMY1 For Db2 z/OS we use setting BIF_COMPATIBILITY = V9_DECIMAL_VARCHAR For this statement we get following results (for Db2 LUW we have parameter DEC_TO_CHAR_FMT set to NEW) : Database Value Da...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 2 Under review

Ability to pass query params in SAP Odata Stage

Currently Odata stage is able to connect to a SAP system and select a service or table but there is no way we are able to pass any parameters to extract only a limited set of data
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Re-Positioning of the Delete object Function

We had a scenario whereby an object was accidentally deleted via the Admin UI, exacerbated by cascade delete being enabled, meaning a large umber of objects were soft deleted. IBM do not currently support un-deletion should this arise meaning that...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

FastMap parallelism in uploading data must be managed internally by the product with no actions by the user

Actually if the user wants to upload data files in parallel he has to start multiple uploads instances. The request is that the product takes one data file prepared by the user, and manages the parallelism internally, starting more threads so gett...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Cp4data SaaS for everyone

This idea is useful to make cp4data saas compliant to customer WCAG requirements, we have to work on accessibility criteria. Doing this we will expand cloud pak for data to the entire ENEL population that now cannot access to the content due to th...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 2 Under review

Support CLOB data type 4 GB

DB2 support only 2 GB for CLOB, where as Oracle support 4GB. This creates issue from migrating from Oracle to DB2
almost 2 years ago in Db2 0 Under review

Add Business Process Visualizations feature to TFUI

Business Process Visualizations feature where users can create process diagrams in OP (using ProcessDiagram, DataInput, DataOutput object types) was only available in the Standard UI and retired in 8.3. Many clients use an external tool to create ...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Add the capability to write timestamp in a parquet file in the new format of Proleptic Gregorian calendar through Azure Data Lake storage connector

We use Azure DataLake storage connector to generate Parquet files in Azure data lake. Then on the azure end, MS ADF is used to load the parquet files to Azure Synapse. If we enable the use of Staging in ADF Mapping Data Flow on the Azure end, the ...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Data Module: Combine fact tables (like a presentation layer)

I want to have the capabilities to regroup measures(columns) from different tables into one folder. In other words, having the possibility of using a presentation layer which reference the measures. At the moment, I have to make my user navigate t...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Under review