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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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New capabilities for CSV and PDF export

As we want to make sure we follow security standards for our Cognos platform in Production environment (no PDF/CSV/XLS outputs allowed), we currently managed to remove PDF/CSV/XLS report export capability for our customers in Production - CA versi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Workflows: Include support for mathematical operations/transformations in Expressions

It'd be a great addition if we can evaluate mathematical expressions as conditions or operations in Native Workflow. Sample use cases: 1. Operate on a field, making it 1.2 times its original value. 2. Operate on another field, e.g., adjust the val...
about 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Delivered

Scheduling of Import from Flat Files for Daily, Weekly & Monthly

Current settings only allow "Import from Flat Files" to be scheduled for "Execute immediately" or "One Time Only". However, as month end closing are done monthly, There is a need to have the import scheduled Monthly at least. Workaround now is to ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

UI to handle datasets with the same name in different folders

CP4D does not handle datasets with the same name in different folders cleanly. In UI under 'Data sets' only the newer file is presented. /mnts/gpfs.iis/data/yrtest/cms/BMC# ls -la YRtest.ds-rw-rw-r--. 1 1000650000 root 4518 Feb 21 20:19 YRtest.ds#...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Maker/Checker role assignment for Business Term approval

In a business term approval process , when a maker(workflow initiator) add user/user groups as a stewards(approvers) for any business terms ,current UI displays all users without verifying whether those users has reviewer role or higher permission...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

An AI assistant to test COBOL code rewriting

For cases WCAT-I-1, WCAT-I-8, WCAT-I-11, WCAT-I-16, WCAT-I-17, it would be useful to have a tool for automating the generation of non-regression test cases, comparing the results of executing the original COBOL program and the transformed COBOL pr...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Delivered

allow SELECT with LISTAGG function to always allow ORDER BY

I am using DB2 Version 12. function level 501 I have a simple SQL example I show my co-workers to show the power of new DB2 SQL function of LISTAGG SELECT IXCREATOR, IXNAME ,LISTAGG(ALL COLNAME,',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY COLSEQ) AS ALL_COLS ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Delivered

Watson Discovery query need support for Field relevany boosting / Field relevancy weighing

BMC Customer's are requesting that Watson Discovery query should allow specifyingfield relevancy boosting / field relevancy weighing when searching documents - typically for gettingmatching passages. In the absence of this Feature, BMC Customer's ...
almost 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Allow ability to download multiple files simultaneously in Drive Explorer

Download link is not available when selecting > 1 file. I saw one other enhancement request on the same topic (Drive Explorer), but is asking for a different solution (file view/open without down loading). That solution request is kbetter. Howe...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to add columns to DB2 z/OS tables without impacting IDAA or incremental update

Currently, adding a column to a DB2 z/OS table that is using IDAA with incremental update involves: 1) Adding the column in DB2 z/OS2) Stopping replication for all IDAA tables3) Dropping the affected table from IDAA4) Adding the affected table bac...
over 12 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered