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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 Tenant ID Parameter to Extension JSON

Add a Parameter for Tenant ID to Extensions JSON Files. For Example... For the entire extension:{ "name":"Sample_Context_Menu_Item", "comment": "This extension will add a new menu item to the context menu for all report objects.", "comment": "The ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add a Feature to Replicate Microseconds Portion of Timestamp

We use IIDR CDC on z/OS for replication using DB2 data on z/OS as the source and a flat file on a non-z/OS platform as the target. We have encountered a situation where the microseconds portion of the timestamp value on a DB2 z/OS table is not ret...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Upgrade of secondary server without restore from primary

Assuming we're upgrading a sever which is a primary server in a MACH-11 cluster, it should be able to save all the new page images (of changed pages during the conversion) in the file system. Very similar to what we do in the CONVERSION_GUARD feat...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Request to easily integrate custom scripts into the managed, SaaS DataStage Runtime

Our company is using Cloud Pak for Data as a managed service, which means we don't have direct access to the OpenShift platform or any of the pods or servers that run the Cloud Pak services, like the DataStage server. Occasionally with on-prem Dat...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Add Relative Date on FM Package dates and measures in Data Module

Relative Dates feature is very useful for doing as of date analysis. but currently it is limited to excel file, data sets. Our users mostly use FM package to do this kind of analysis.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

GDPR: Allow for file attachments to be anonymized as well (file name and contents)

GDPR API features introduced with version 8.0.0.1 do not allow for anonymizing file names and contents. At least for PDF, TXT, CSV and common MS Office files should be consider during search and replace (anonymization) as well.
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

The Q-Replication apply programm shall be able to call the Db2 High Performance Unload (HPU) utility by the HPU stored procedure

Hello, in enterprise warehouse and OLTP areas of DB2 installations exist often very big databases with several tera bytes (often 100 of TBs) of data. For example we have several OLTP databases with more than 20TB and tables with billion of records...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Anywhere search is offered

We've had issues with an unreliable indexing update process resulting in a dysfunctional search. As a result, it's made us realize many of the new features (data modules and other) have a complete dependency on the search to select objects (upload...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drill Through to Database Table - Excel Export

A Drill-Through in PAW to a database table will open a window where the user can export the data to a CSV file. An English user can open this file with Excel and all columns will end up in the right place. A non-English customer will need to conve...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Upload picture with upload file feature

use "upload files" feature to upload pictures to display this picture in report.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration