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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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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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Automated Reference Data Cleanup and Versioning Maintenance

Problem Statement: Currently, IKC creates a new version for each updated dataset, leading to the accumulation of older versions. There is no built-in mechanism to automatically purge older versions or retain only a specific number of recent versio...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Automated RD Type Modification with Data Migration

Problem Statement: Currently, modifying RD Types in IBM-RDMs requires creating new RD Sets and RD Types, which can be inefficient and error-prone. Additionally, handling reference data during RD Type modifications involves manual steps, leading to...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Attributes selected in set editor to persist to cube viewer

When working with cubes users often refer to attributes for additional information. Typically a user starts by going into the set editor to create their set, select the required elements or possibly choose another set. They then select attributes ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

"delete cascade" does not work with "not enforced"

The option "not enforced" on a foreign key invalidates an already set "on delete cascade" option, although this is not visible anywhere within the data model or documentation. In my opinion, setting one of these options should prohibit the other o...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Prohibit certain tools for users with the consumer role.

Considering that they are end users, we should disable as many things as possible that they could potentially break. For example, it would be beneficial if, when creating an application in the workspace, this toolbar with certain tools could be di...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

PAW created/edited TI processes are backward compatible with Architect

I used Planning Analytics Workspace to make a change in a TI that used a cube datasource. I did a save as, so I could ask a co-worker about a change and not overwrite the original. My co-worker was using architect when he opened the TI and made a ...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Delivered

Task-based Workflow in PAW

Task-based workflow in PAW: - Administrations can create tasks (such as enter product volumes, set pricing, enter new headcount, plan expenses, etc).- Tasks would have a description and instructions- Tasks can be assigned to users and associated w...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Missing "DROP PERIOD" possibility

Regular there is a request that we have to read certain data in a consistent state (e.g. likewise moving customer data from one DB2 environment to another) even while concurrent workload is still active and running in parallel against the same set...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Governance Workflows by Steward

As a business SME, owner, or steward assigned to a governance artifact, I would like to know when that governance artifact has been created, modified, or deleted. Governance workflows should be configured so that a steward on an artifact is listed...
about 5 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Support user-defined Python module

I would like to maintain a set of Python functions and classes in a separate model/script, then do an import from that module in a notebook and DO4DSX model.Use cases:* I want to move complex function definitions out of my notebook. The functions ...
over 7 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / Decision Optimization for Watson Studio 2 Planned for future release