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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.

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HPU 'FASTU-DELIMITED' output format delimiter issue

We are in the process of converting CA DB2 Fast Unload jobs to IBM HPU and got the below issue for atleast 16 Batch jobs and impacting the migration to IBM DB2 tools. Faced the delimiter issue with IBM HPU as below :- CA Fast Unload output - '000R...
10 months ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

DQ Rule output column to me made available in IKC BI Data Service Model

DQ Rule output column to me made available in IKC BI Data Service Model. We have certain rule how to name output columns of Data Rules and we have established reporting to monitor naming convention. This will ensure the quality of the data quality.
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Support Kerberos credentials in Data Refinery

Currently as per the most recent versions of Cloud Pak for Data we can't use our connection to Apache Hive on Cloudera 7 because of the fact that we strictly use Kerberos authentication there. We can't use simple passwords. This makes it so that c...
10 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Enable/disable data preview at connection level

In CP4D platform connection level there must be a setting to enable/disable data preview. Disabling data preview at connection level will be global and block data preview at any component, except Data Stage, of CP4D and any object (table, view, SQ...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Graphically show relationship between model objects and physical database objects

IKC needs to graphically show relationship between physical data model objects and physical database objects (e.g. tables and columns).
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 8 Delivered

Hide Aggregation Type On Charts

Hi Team, On the cognos dashboard 11.2.4 version, there is a scenario where it is necessary to hide the aggregate type of fields on the charts, which appear as tooltips when you hover over the charts in brackets. The additional data from aggregatio...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

HPU writes tables locally. If HPU could write direct to S3 locations, it would eliminate the need to move files after creation.

If HPU had a feature to write data directly to S3 buckets, it would make the process for moving data to cloud faster & easier. While initial unloads may be constrained by available bandwidth, the process of writing to S3 immediately starts the...
about 1 month ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow tab names based on data when exporting to Excel from Cognos Analytics On Demand

When exporting to Excel from Cognos Analytics On Cloud Hosted we were able to have an admin switch turned on: Set RSVP.EXCEL.PAGEGROUP_WSNAME_ITEMVALUE to true This meant Excel exports could have meaningful tab names based on the data in the repor...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 1 Planned for future release

JSON Support as datasource

Some of our customers are using Datameer, PowerBI or Tableau for doing raw data exploration and using JSON as a datasource directly.Cognos Analytics also should support JSON as a datasource both for self service and enterprise bi
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Dashboard filter bar should allow single select or multi select, optional or mandatory

The filters available in the All Tabs / This Tabs area of dashboards are multi-select only. We often have dimensions, that if a user filters on multiple values, will produce an invalid result. Some examples include currency - if you select multipl...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release