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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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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.

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add more columns for job export

from job details view, we can export current in file, but the list of avail columns of the RTM settings -> job export view is limited compared to what we can display in the job detail view and also what's avail in the DB table. Can you please e...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Future consideration

Add ability for OpenPages/Cognos administrators to add custom images to server

We need to include a custom diagram image for each assessment, which will then be displayed in the Cognos PDF report for that assessment. Currently, the PDF report is unable to use the image if uploaded/attached to an object within OpenPages (only...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Crosstab and List Rave 2 visualisations

Crosstab and List Rave 2 visualisations to use in active reports. This will allow for the crosstab and list to be filtered by a category not being displayed in the values. Same behaviour as charts.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Grid View in Task Focused UI should have same display functionality as in Standard UI

The Standard UI offers the ability to display up to 3 levels of object instances in Filtered List Views or Grid Views. The Grid Views in the new UI so far are missing this ability. It further would be beneficial, if more than 3 levels could be dis...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 6 Not under consideration

DIS LOCATION - Show entries for multiple drivers versions from a single server

DIS LOCATION caches the PRDID for the first connection from a remote server. Additional traffic from the same server using different drivers is not dynamically displayed. For example if a test connect uses the JCC driver and all additional traffic...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Top/Bottom Filter for Barcharts

Currently, only Explorations can be filtered by TOP/Bottom members (Membercount, Percentage, SUM). When you change to exploration to a - for example - barchart, this information gets lost. It would be a good idea to keep that dynamic filtering fro...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Integrate use of Alation's delete API in the Manta to Alation connector to export lineage.

Recent discussion with IBM and the Alation vendor has clarified what lineage is actually shown in Alation for items that we previously thought would always be showing Manta's current lineage. Relative to this topic, Alation does not have an intern...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Needs more information

Do not display field guidance in "i" Icon for the view in which field is not display even if it is added

Do not display field guidance in "i" Icon for the view in which field is not display even if it is added. If I added field ABC and if it si hidden on the view because of some visibility condition, still its field guidance is display in "i" icon of...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

DB2 profiles - register START PROFILE and STOP PROFILE commands

Summary: Log all -START PROFILE and -STOP PROFILE commands in a DB2 table, ready to be used for queries onto the history tables. Details: When DB2 profiles are being enabled (SYSIBM.DSN_PROFILE_TABLE.PROFILE_ENABLED='Y'), the next -START PROFILE c...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Workflow advanced logic validations and custom error messages

When defining a workflow advanced logic validation with a custom error message the information provided to the user when the validation fails is confusing. The custom error message as define does show in the yellow drop down guidance box that disp...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Under review