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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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Having a Reload View feature in PAW like in Perspective and Architecte

In Architect and Perspectives there are options "Reload view" or "Reload private view" in order to reload the initial saved view. This is very useful when you need to drill down from a general view to a more noarron view. Then you change the data ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Attribute Properties Hidden not available for Lookup Specs

We had an use case to keep the primary key to be sequenced provided the legacy data should be loaded to the table with its own sequence and then later the primary keys have to be autogenerated. This was achieved by maintaining an internal sequence...
almost 3 years ago in Product Master 1 Future consideration

CPU usage graph for a job in RTM

First, RTM version is 10.2. Currently, RTM provides just two CPU graphs for a job, one is CPU Time For Job and the other is CPU Time Variation for Job. but that two graphs is related with the time which a job used how much time. But customer want ...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 2 Not under consideration

MDM AE : Performance overhead due to timestamp field format

As per the Bank's service contract, timestamp must have 'T' in the data to comply the contract validation. (Ex: 2012-03-25T00:00:00.002). But on IBM MDM service response, this T is not available on timestamp which leads to contract validation f...
over 5 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

OpenPages error message for Malicious attack should pinpoint the specific field/text location where error exists

In OpenPages 7.2+ version, whenever user copies some text/formatting which may include unwanted hidden characters from Word/Outlook to OpenPages detail page and tries to save the record, users get "Malicious Attack" error and they are logged out o...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Is a defect

Clear text passwords are displayed in onstat -g sql/ses commands for Informix user account create/modify user SQL commands

When using USERMAPPING feature to create internal Informix user accounts, it was found the SQL command executed to create an account or modify the password of an existing account is displayed in the output of onstat -g ses and onstat -g sql. Also ...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Request for EBCDIC order on IDAA

Our customer has used DB2 since more than 30 years ago. So, all DB2 tables are made up of EBCDIC.Based on customer's IT plan, IDAA was installed. Users need to sort data in EBCDIC order.IDAA tables are made up of UNICODE, therefore sort results ar...
over 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Huge *.out files is getting created in /tmp issue

Sometimes LSF job STDOUT files, such as $JOB_SPOOL_DIR/..out grow to enormous sizes and fill up the filesystem. Neither Linux nor LSF provides a mechanism to limit the size of those specific files without also limiting all other files on the files...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Test and provide documentation to provide support for more recent Parquet file formats.

The current Parquet/Orc file instructions provide support for Parquet 1.9.0, which is now 3.5 years old. We have vendors who want to use Parquet to feed their big data lakes, and we are struggling to support them with this old format, even in an i...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Delivered

Display status of IDAA statistics in List Tasks view

Given the issues we've had with the new IDAA appliance, it would be helpful if we could see the status of IDAA statistics for tables referenced in an active query. See attached for screenshots of Data Studio List Tasks view and statistics icon.
over 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 2 Delivered