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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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Allow relations to be defined between drafts

In certain cases we would like to leave terms/rules in draft state until they are 'ready' - meaning there is no published version. These objects should have relationships between them. Thus we'd need a way to create relationships between two draft...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Give an option to add label to VIP in a DB2 integrated pacemaker Cluster

If we have multiple instances running on same host then it becomes very difficult to check which ip address maps to which VIP Example : Pacemaker cluster with two instances and have two Primary VIPs [root@sapgc5db201 bin]# crm statusCluster Summar...
about 1 year ago in Db2 2 Future consideration

REORG PREFORMAT of 1 TB page set should be interruptable

With PH64760 one can create 1TB page sets in one step. If one runs a REORG PREFORMAT on such large objects, the Media Manager Preformat task is not interruptable. Such a size of 1TB needs ~1.5hours to preformat the page set. In the meanwhile neith...
7 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

REST API endpoint for performance optimized writeback with arrow format

With more and more TM1 implementations happening in the cloud, we see more data loads using REST API / TM1py instead of Turbo Integrator. When using TM1py or the REST API, the best performance you can accomplish right now is to be on par with Turb...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Capability to specify workflow trigger based on the object attribute changes (minor change vs major change)

Two different solutions options: 1. Criticality of the attribute change will be defined based on mandatory vs optional attributes 2. In workflow configuration view, user can select relavant attributes to trigger the workflow
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Db2 TOTAL_CPU_TIME monitoring metric on AIX should reflect "wall" CPU time and not use PURR-scaled time reported currently by thread_cputime AIX API

Db2 monitoring interfaces report "CPU time" metric (TOTAL_CPU_TIME), which accounts the time that given activity/request (and all higher level aggregated interfaces) spent actively "on CPU" whilst executing the query. On AIX this information is ob...
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

allow adding a downloadable data products that is sourced from uploaded CSV files (uploaded to a project in CP4D or directly to DPH)

Currently the only way to add a CSV product to DPH is of it is sourced from object storage siuch as azure adls, IBM clos or Amazon S3. The reason for this is the following: 1. add more flexibility to adding products (especially for demos or testin...
2 months ago in Data Product Hub 0 Future consideration

Add ability to secure tabs in a dashboard based on different security groups

We have different groups who likes to see similar dashboards but currently we have to create separate dashboards for each group due to data security issue and we would very much like to have a functionality available where we can secure a tab in t...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLES needs to support INDEXES on EXPRESSION

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE (AMT) procedure fails in SWAP phase, if the table to be moved has an expression based index defined. This issue has been lifted partially, as the RENAME of the table is now supported with INDEX on EXPRESSION (IoE). But in our case...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 3 Future consideration

Manta should allow user to include/exclude certain files from a list of files

We are utilizing Manta-SAS scaniner to scan .sas files from gitlab. To improve the efficiency and relevance of our scans, we aim to implement mechanisms that allow us to include or exclude specific .sas files based on certain criteria. This capabi...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration