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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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istool import - add mapping option for FastTrack assets

We would like to add the ability to the istool command to allow for the importing of fasttrack assets using a mapping file along with the isx file.
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

CDC should be able to read Oracle logs with asynchronous read-ahead method

Oracle archive log reading needs improving.This customer has to process around 2.4TB / day of Redo Logs.Due to a number of reasons there are occasional replication stops/restarts. This makes the log readers to go back in time, forcing the read of ...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

When sending PDFs by mail, dynamic setting of the mail header and attached filename

When sending PDFs or XLS by mail, a datetimestamp, parameter or burstgroupvalue would be preferred to be included in the file name and in the header of the mail
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PARSE node

Virtually all the source (input) nodes have some way of parsing out data items from a record or row. However, there is one source that does not have this functionality, and that is an incoming arrow from within the stream itself. Of course, this f...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Allow for bulk testing of questions

During the construction or the improvement of a virtual assistant, we need to test its behavior thoroughly. It involves using a list of questions to check if the answers are consistent. There's no native way in WA to import a large amount of quest...
about 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Add ability to merge data in data sets instead of overwriting

Currently when edit data set in My Data Sets in the way to upload a new file into existing DB then existing data in DB will be overwritten. The ability is requested to be able to merge the new data with existing data in DB. A comfortable way would...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict Users from sharing Credentials to run reports/jobs

In IBM Congos connection going to "My Area Options" > "My Preferences" > "Personal" tab users can add other users to share thier credentials to run activities. This can't be controlled from capabilities or by customizing xml files.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Exclude TEMPLATE utility from IFCID 3

As for each call of the TEMPLATE utility an accounting record is written and as we use lots of TEMPLATE utilities, the overall utility accounting records are diluted. So we need the possibility to exclude the SMF data for TEMPLATE utility calls fr...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Manage APIs as assets in the catalog

The customer is managing its own proprietary repository of apis to various systems and databases. The content of the repository is a set of YAML files and JSON files. Those files contain metadata (I will upload to the case a sample yaml file) . Th...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

IBM Cloud - Enabled parameters (by default) are made present in the tm1s.cfg file on server setup

Using the PAW Administration page for applications built on IBM Cloud the environments are not appropriately synchronizing the configuration parameters. Per IBM Support, If the parameter is not present in the tm1s.cfg, the Configuration section in...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration