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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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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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Let the MDM Docker containers use environment settings from outside the image

The current Docker installable containers use static environment settings for for example database server, ldap server, kafka server, etc. This means we need to create an image for every environment increasing the possibility to have different cod...
about 5 years ago in Master Data Management 4 Not under consideration

Allow SELECT INTO to assign query results to Local Variables within a Function/Procedure

When trying to assign a query result to local variables within a PROCEDURE or FUNCTION using Dynamic SQL only a DYNAMIC CURSOR (see below) can be used which leads to more complicated and lengthy code. However, using SELECT INTO (see below) could b...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Add Special Characters Such as $ to Account Code

Currently, our company has started using special characters such for accounts as we have run out of numbers. These new accounts with numbers and special characters (like $) can not be entered into Controller.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Additional Formatting in Asset Properties

We are putting code values into the a custom attribute called valid values. The code and description do not line up correctly. Tabluar format with bolded headings would be ideal.
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 3 Not under consideration

Data Migration using DVM - Migration of any data source to RDBMS .

In present world, there are N number of systems running in Mainframes, especially IMS DB, ADABAS, VSAM datasets. When an enterprise is needy to move the data present in above sources into a DB2 Data source to support their modern applications usin...
over 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

HSTS implementation for TM1Web and Planning Analytics Server

Currently Planning Analytics Server and Tm1Web do not support HSTS. This is a security requirement for multiple customers. Mainly HSTS is required at Banks and government customers. We need to have a facility to implement HSTS for Tm1Web. As of no...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add Filters to searchConsent/getAllConsentByParty

Two use cases: Operational use cases are typically interested in the set of active consents for a given client. Some use cases only have an interest in a specific consent. Typically these use cases will know client ID and Processing Purpose Type Code
over 5 years ago in Master Data Management 4 Not under consideration

Add a function to determine if we are in the last row of a list or a crosstab

Ability to determine with a report function if we are in the last row of a list or a crosstab in order to apply specific layout (color coding).
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Panel GOC1 - Edit Objects should default to NO upon panelid presentation. Code is just doing a VGET.

Field should default at presentation to No.
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Need documentation for Statistics Server failure codes when jobstep submitted from C&DS

Sometimes an SPSS Statistics jobstep submitted from C&DS fails. In the output log for C&DS all that the end user knows is that the job failed and they see error codes like "-1", "-2", "-3", etc. However there is no documentation on what th...
almost 11 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration