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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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Limit the no.of report output versions that can be saved in content store

our user community is new to cognos as we are migrating from business objects to cognos. All of the report output versions are saved in BO for some reason in the BO file system. we would like to limit that capability in cognos so users are forced ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

CSV file support

One of our largest design patterns is to export data from a source system into a flat file (CSV, JSON, etc.). We use these flat files to populate our data warehouse ecosystem. Manta does not support CSV files, and this is a showstopper for us. Can...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Functionality already exists

Snowflake Native Functions in FM

Snowflake database native functions are not available by default in FM installations due to that we are not able to use snowflake-related functions in report authoring, we have to only common functions which are limited sometimes. installation und...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Functionality already exists

Be able to send stdout/stderr to both file and email

See ticket TS015786331; currently cannot have stderr & stdout go to both a file and email. We would like the option to do both.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Functionality already exists

SQL type Query solution on DS job meta data, like 11.7 DSODB, XMETA tables

GM is running DS 11.7.4 currently, and has at vertical application teams who have their own SELECT queries on DSODB DB tables attached to their instance of DS platform, for jobrun statuses (success/failure) & statistics of job start/end runtim...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Multi-byte character support for importing governance deliverables

This may have already been posted by anyone, but I am posting this because I searched and could not find it. Regarding importing governance deliverables from csv files, when I imported a file with Japanese input, the text was garbled.So I would li...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Full RFC 4180 support for File Connector / Flat File Stage

Full RFC 4180 support for File Connector / Flat File Stage enables the Stage to read well formatted flat files without any script support / preformating.
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Kerberos support for Oracle connections from Infosphere CDC tool

As part of mandatory application modernization efforts we are upgrading all application connections to Kerberos based connection, The only blocker we have is IBM CDC tool, which currently does not support Kerberos. We are not allowed to upgrade un...
almost 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Functionality already exists

File Encryption

We have a requirement to encrypt the file after extracting the data and push it to file transfer.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Bulk upload

We need a tool for the bulk upload of data into OpenPages. It must be an automated process able to import files with up to several millions of records. It can be started by the user , but it must also be schedulable. It must manage several data fo...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 2 Functionality already exists