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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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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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Update tutorial of Watson Studio

[a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points] When we try the tutorial below, we couldn't follow the steps as there was no data load button. Tutorial: Build a predictive analytic model to determine whether a person has chroni...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Data Stewards need the ability to import and attach comments to columns

Would like the ability to import and attach comments to columns, both from the database directly and from a spreadsheet with the table name, column name and comment. There is sometimes relevant info in the database comments and our testing has sho...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Data stewards need the ability to assign multiple columns as parts of a primary key

Need the ability to assign multiple columns as being parts of the primary key for a table in a *persistent* way even when the database DDL does not reflect this OR may even reflect a different primary key. Our largest customer service application ...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Encryption for DataStage repository

Our Secuity department mandate us to encrypt all databases including the DataStage XMETA repository. When we do encrypt the DB2 database XMETA with the "DATA_ENCRYPT" option on the DB2 configuration, the WebSphere is not able to connect and I am n...
over 7 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

DB2 z/OS Cloning Tool: Provide support to clone applications (tablespace cloning) using System Level Backup as input. RFE 123129

Description http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=123129 For database recovery and faster data backup's , we implement the system level backup utility. The request is, to use this files as input files for ta...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Hide shared set features under more options in reporting

There are some features that are supported only for dimentional data and when we are supproting only Relational model these features are obsolete and could trigger unnecessary confusion to the user. We would like to see the options to customize an...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Secure Global connections in CPD using LDAP or individual users

Our CPD environment will be self service. If Data scientists are allowed to created the connection in Global connections for all users. Global and DV data source connections cannot be secured by the owners. The workaround right now is to create co...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 1 Delivered

DataStage - GIT Integration for DevOps - Collaboration of CI/CD process

In DFD tool, we can push the changes to GIT repository. General case is, Developer 1 is working on a making changes to Data Stage job and it is under UAT in PRE Production server. Developer 2 is working on the same job for Enhancement work. It is ...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Add Query Studio filtering functionality to WSA/Cognos 11

Query Studio contains the “Matches SQL Pattern” operator that allows users to very easily input multiple partial values when filtering on a field. WSA/11 offers the same operator but only allows one value to be added at a time (even if using t...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Job Step ODBC Data Source with SQL Query

In SPSS Deployment Manager, I have a Job with a Job Step, where the "Mode" of one of the ODBC Data Sources in the underlying SPSS Modeler Stream was recently changed from "Table" to "SQL Query".After refreshing the job step to use the version of t...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 1 Is a defect