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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.

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.

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GIT Integration for Reference Data Management (Source Control Tool)

Problem Statement: Currently, managing code related to Reference Data MAPs, SETs, RD-Types, and small static Reference Data in IKC involves manual code copying across environments, leading to version control challenges and potential deployment inc...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Automated RD Type Modification with Data Migration

Problem Statement: Currently, modifying RD Types in IBM-RDMs requires creating new RD Sets and RD Types, which can be inefficient and error-prone. Additionally, handling reference data during RD Type modifications involves manual steps, leading to...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

SQL Pushback/Write watsonx.data (presto) with SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio

Pain point: Modeler User cannnot analyze large data on watsonx.data(presto), since SQL Pushback is'nt supported Workaround: Copy the data on watsonx.data to the other RDB. But there is almost no advantage to use watsonx.data. Benefit: Modeler user...
about 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio 0 Future consideration

Shared Data Source Signons

Due to the heightened levels of security, we are forced to change our credentials to data sources often. In Cognos Connection, we can associate multiple signons to each data source and each signon is defined by a name. It would be helpful if the s...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Optim to make use of REST API / S3 protocol instead CIFS protocol

The problem statement is below: OPTIM is unable the read any archive file from HCP device (cifs protocol used) and this has become more frequent for the past two weeks. The archive file written locally can be retrieved without any IO Error. The Op...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Future consideration

Find the data asset from a lot of csv files in Dashboard

In our case, we organize the weather data every data. So, the data are saved as a csv file every day. When the data sets are large and we want to select one specific day, it has to scroll down and click the 'more' button to find the data set.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Dashboard Embedded 0 Future consideration

improved estimation for potential use of Huffman Compression

Requirement for more accurate estimates of DASD space savings when using Huffman Compression. Problem is that estimates produced by DSN1COMP can be significantly inaccurate i.e., as much as +/- 30%. The solution required is a new option on the REO...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add alternate text to images for AODO Compliance

We found Images on the following pages/services are lacking alternate texts which failed our AODA testing (WCAG Criteria 1.1.1) Add to project : Data Refinery Deployment/Test (Overview) As suggested by IBM, ref TS008471971, we would like to add th...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration

Related Content Tab in Business Terms should present respective data type for each Data Asset Column and an option to print a .csv file

When the related content (Related Content Tab in Business Terms gov artifact) is a Data Asset Column type, its presentation must be accompanied by its respective data type. In addition, there must be the option to print a csv file for that generat...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Duplicate Related Values Error Handling

When importing multi-related values into an RDS via a csv and there's a duplicate on one row the import bombs out with the error and no related values are imported after that point, even the correct ones. Instead of an error, it would be helpful i...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration