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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.

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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Planning Analytics for Excel Process Process Failure Error Message

System - Planning Analytics for Excel.Actor - User requires meaning Error Message when a process executed from PAX fails.Description - When a process fails in "PAX" the error message is "Object Reference not set to an object of a reference"this is...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Applications and Plans - Hover Text Configuration

Allow hover text to be customizable for objects within PAW. For example, If I hover my curser over an action button I want to specify that a hover text box shows up and describes what the button is going to do. This should be configurable in the a...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add support for Python 3.9 and 3.10 to cplex & docplex packages (they support a very limited number of Python versions)

Please add support for Python 3.9 and 3.10 to the cplex and docplex Python packages as soon as possible and upload new binary packages (wheels) to the Python Package Index. The cplex package currently supports Python 3.7 and 3.8. According to the...
almost 4 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio 1

Increase 128 character limit for ADMIN_MODE_USERS onconfig parameter

ADMIN_MODE_USERS is a useful way of ensuring DBAs and critical monitoring scripts can connect in single user mode. Unfortunately this parameter is limited to 128 characters which is insufficient for the team we have and the three system accounts t...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Data Protection Rules: support combination of rules to filter data

Defining more complex and sequential rules is essential to comply with business access rules in larger businesses w/o having to define hundreds of rules. Given is a table with regions "A" and "B" and a user community getting access to either A or ...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Manta Data Dictionary, Hierarchy, Path for RDBMS semi-structured(JSON, BLOB & CLOB) Columns

Problem : Currently Manta Data Dictionary, Hierarchy, Path doesn't capture the RDBMS data dictionary beyond column level. There are multiple system which save the JSON/BLOB/CLOB into RDBMS columns. Need to have a way to represent the JSON/BLOB/CLO...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

High CPU utilisation in CF structure xxxx_SCA

We have noticed that the structure DB2P_SCA in production the reason for high CPU consumption in the Coupling Facility is. Our reporting proofs this behaviour. We opened a case and did a deeper dive with IBM’s experts into. At the end we can say t...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Include milliseconds in any TIMESTAMP column. The datatype supports it, IBM, please value it.

There are many TIMESTAMP columns within the OperationalConsole application that do not have milliseconds valued and this makes is very difficult to get accurate timings. Here are a couple of examples, in the DSODB.JobRun table, CREATIONTIMESTAMP h...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

@MEDIAN

Returns the median of values for FIELD over the last EXPR records received by the current node, including the current record. It is similart to @MEAN https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spss-modeler/18.4.0?topic=reference-sequence-functions#clem_functio...
about 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Reports should be able to save output as data set (dataset), just like HTML, Excel, PDF, CSV etc

A report should be able to save output as a data set. Run a report to a data set should be just as simple as running a report to Excel, PDF etc. Whilst the functionality exists to create a new data set report from an existing report, this means we...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Planned for future release