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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Support InfoSphere DataStage 11.3 on Windows 10

Bank of Canada is planning to upgrade all Windows platform to Windows 10 by the end of year. The DataStage client tools currently are not supported on Windows 10. This limitation will have impact to the Windows upgrade project.
over 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Improve blackout window scheduling

Improve blackout window scheduling to allow select day/week of the month. In example my need is to set a blackout window for a set of databases on the 3rd Saturday of each Month @ 4 AM.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Functionality already exists

Optim to make use of REST API / S3 protocol instead CIFS protocol

The problem statement is below: OPTIM is unable the read any archive file from HCP device (cifs protocol used) and this has become more frequent for the past two weeks. The archive file written locally can be retrieved without any IO Error. The Op...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Future consideration

PAW Action Button item box for Lists is too small

When you link a parameter to a List control type, the control detail field is used to capture the items to be displayed in the list. To see or edit the items you need to copy and paste outside of PAW to Notepad or similar.For example, a short list...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Configuration on the experience with downloadable report formats

When generate report with downloadable format, a popup/ tab page would be created and not closing automatically. This would make user confusion as the new window state "Download this report in Excel format". Suggest to add option to configure Cogn...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Support more than 50 Characters Password on Symphony for Windows Impersonation User

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=consumer-configuring-windows-password Here it shows 31 chars or fewer as the limit. However we have an internal requirement of the account lockout policy that mandates the length to be more...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Delivered

Update the DB2 LUW Client Drivers to support Windows Server Core docker images

The IBM DB2 client driver package does not work on window server core images. See the included Dockerfiles. Dockerfile-servercore uses the aspnet 4.8 base image which is based on windowsservercore-ltsc2022 docker image https://hub.docker.com/r/mic...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Tool tip shows in Package but not in Report and Dashboard

Single installation on Windows for CA 11.1.3 After adding the "Screen Tip" in FM and publishing it to Cognos portal.- Open the package in Report, on left panel it shows but drag the item to Report working area it doesn't show. The issue happens in...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CA 11.0.5 with Siteminder - URL contains invalid characters ('~')

we have to check the possibility to provide the Cognos Analytics 11.0.5 Installation on our Windows Environment (2 tiers - Web and APP/CM). On the Web(IIS 7.5) is Siteminder WebAgent Running. After Configuration we are trying to login and receivin...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Number of elements in a dimension

In order to properly reorder the dimensions in a cube, I need to know the size of each dimension. Legacy Perspectives/Architect allowed me to see this via the properties window. I cannot find anything in PAW that shows me how many elements are in ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered