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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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Nulls should display correctly in Frequency Distribution

Currently in a Data Quality, Frequency Distribution for an asset created by legacy COBOL on mainframe, the field may contain spaces or main contain Low Values (Hex 00) character. Currently WKC displays any non-printable character as "Spaces". In t...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Many Time and Relative Time changes needed in Cube Designer

Several Relative Time issues enhancements needed • We need the ability to hide any relative time that is automatically added when relative time is set to true. Some are not what the business wants and for some of them the %'s are not wanted eith...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Mounting Shared drives with restrictive permissions

A way to mount shared drives (CIFS shares) in a capacity that utilises each users existing permissions on the remote share. Currently the way that we this is set up for CP4D (3.0.1) is utilising defined account credentials that are stored in a sec...
almost 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Functionality already exists

Multiple transitions between a set of stages

Currently WF allows only 1 transition to be defined between 2 stages lets say from Stage A to Stage B. There is a need to allow 2 different actions (transitions) between these 2 stages i.e. from Stage A to Stage B. Based on the action selected, th...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Not under consideration

Data Source Connections - Set Password Dynamically

Problem / Use Case - In Cognos Data source connections can be created in multiple places. Either of the below cases we need to enter the password manually. Considering knowing the password in Production databases is a Security Risk. So Implement a...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Create a way to prevent a job with an SLA from using another SLA's hosts/slots/memory if the other SLA is under-committed

LSF hosts come and go, and when you create an allocation that uses exact numbers, there are times when a Pool can be over and under committed. In the case of an under-committed pool today, consumers from other pools can leverage free slots from th...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Regular Expressions (regex) scalar function

The XMLQUERY function allows the user to use the 'fn:matches' XQuery function, which is great. Please see example UDF which does this... ~~~~~~~~~~--#SET TERMINATOR ! CREATE FUNCTION "UDF_STRING_REGEX_MATCH" ( SEARCHSTRING VARCHAR (50) ) RETURNS S...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Prevent LSF from dispatching jobs to problematic hosts consistently

Some jobs are dispatched to a host and failed because the communication between MBATCHD and SBATCHD is failed. The host keeps in OK status and the jobs keep dispatching to the host, which makes the job can not run for a long time. The communicatio...
about 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Refernce Data - Create rule functionality in Reference Data

When Customer is importing/mapping the reference Data set with Code and Value, He wants to have a flexibility to create a rule. For Example if the source file code does not contain 4 digit, wants to skip the value instead of importing to the targe...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

use of SET CURRENT APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY for ONLINECHECK in db2sqljcustomize command

The SQLJ Profile Customizer command db2sqljcustomize (described in the DB2 11 for z/OS Application Programming Guide and Reference for Java) with the options -onlinecheck YES and -genDBRM is used to create a DB2 z/OS DBRM for a SQLJ Java program. ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release