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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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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Allow additional Special Characters for Data Stage Passwords

We own the Data Stage tool, are a heavy iSeries shop, and we use Active Directory where possible for authentication to reduce the number of user ID's and passwords our folks have to remember. We have been trying to enhance the security on all of o...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Proper check for invalid characters in setEntryAttrib method

MDMCE 11.5.0 - APIs and Scripting Since v10.x the item data is saved in the ITX table as XML. One of the consequences is that certain characters that are invalid for use inside XML structures produce exceptions (--> "com.ibm.db2.jcc.am.SqlDataE...
almost 8 years ago in Product Master 0 Delivered
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Ability to export/import or migrate the data from a collection to another.

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We have a Discovery corpus with over 50K documents several of which have large documents (PDF's, Word Docs etc). It take over 9 hours to recreate the full Discovery collection from scratch. It would really help if there was a way to export a col...
almost 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

right management for data module source searching

When searching for a possible source for the creation of a data module, the results lists displays data modules, packs and data sets.If my profile grants me read rights on a data module but not on the repository where the data module is hosted, th...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request For ESSBase native connector in Information Analyzer(IA)

As peer our Business Team discussion, we need to get the ESSBASE native connector in Information Analyzer (IA). We Currently have IIS 11.5 Suit Installed with all products of ETL, Data Cleaning, Quality and Governance tools, We would like to Conne...
almost 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Request For ESSBase native connector in InfoSphere Information Server (IIS)

As per our Business Team discussion, we need to get the ESSBASE native connector in IIS(V11.5) We Currently have IIS 11.5 Suit Installed with all products of ETL, Data Cleaning, Quality and Governance tools, Please provide ESSBASE native connector...
almost 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Enable chunk rename during log recovery

Whenever Informix performs a backup of the rootdbs, it automatically backs up Informix critical files (oncfg, onconfig & sqlhosts). When the Informix critical files are restored via "onbar -r -cf only -t <A TIMESTAMP>", it restores the l...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Select Cases - allow ability to change default option of hiding unselected cases in Data View

SPSS 28 automatically hides cases that don't meet the selection criteria in Data View. There is an option to show unselected cases (like in older versions) but you have to set it each time a new instance of SPSS is opened.
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 1 Functionality already exists

Application Object Space Limit Monitoring - Batch Alerting

We currently have an in-house written tool (in Rexx) that batch reports daily on any of our application objects across our Db2 Z/OS production estate that might be approaching theoretical dataset size / partition limits; so that we can pro-activel...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Mechanism to Lock ADMIN users from editing data inadvertently

A mechanism should be in place to Lock data so that members of the ADMIN group cannot inadvertently edit data.
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists