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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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  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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User Access to Data in Content Store

I have been asked a few times about data stored in the CA content store at various Cognos installations I have worked at. My manager asked if there is a way to retrieve the various user folders in the system and their associated user group capabil...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Incremental Runstats (modify existing statistics based on delta from previous statistics).(RIMS)

Customer requests an incremental runstats support. Specifically the ability for runstats to modify existing statistics based on the new data that came in or was modified after the previous runstats was invoked.
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Request twice daily backup for Planning Analytics Data

IBM is backing up the data tier on Planning Analytics once a day. We would suggest this be increased to twice a day.
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support custom R operations/libraries in Data Refinery

We got the feedback in several discussions that users like to invoke their own libraries in Data Refinery
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

IDMS in Update

The Scenario: We can use DVM to access data in retrieval but we need an other solution to update the IDMS database. The Problem: It’s not possible to update IDMS databases. Current workarounds: Currently we need to develop Z/OS Connect API and COB...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Term Assignment Notification in Metadata Enrichment and Catalog Edit

During Metadata Enrichment or in catalog edit when a business artifact (terms, data classes...) are assigned or changed, the steward(s) or WKC administrators for those artifacts need to be notified of the use of the artifact. This will help keep t...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Ability to remove 'Send to printer' as a Delivery option

We would like the ability to remove the delivery option 'Send to printer' when running a report. We are upgrading to 11.1.5, and the 'Send to printer' is not removed upon removing the user's 'Printer' capability. Currently, removing this capabilit...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM InfoSphere DataStage - Setting delimiters and separators

IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IBM InfoSphere DataStage) does not natively allow you to modify: - the text delimiter (natively, it is the quotation mark) - the field separators (natively, it is the comma) - the record separator (natively, it is ...
over 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Support Watson Discovery service as a data destination inside of Data Platform

The Watson Discovery service has ingestion APIs that allow developers to create an interface for sending data to Discovery for use in their end application. Currently, these APIs are their only means of sending data to Discovery, and it is up to e...
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 3 Not under consideration

CQMINTV - Empty intervals listing causes slowness

CQMINTV command struggles when it lists too many empty intervals(AVAIL NO). Our DBAs were quite unhappy when they figured out the issue. The problem was when the backstore datasets are removed/deleted from the disc and when CQMINTV list those as e...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 2 Delivered