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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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Bring ORA- Error Message to Management Console Events for Analysis

In Infospere Data Replication (CDC) we get following error message: "Failed to add a row to table PDOMAN.G_CHRG_PIPO. PIPO_ID: [3412586] . No rows were found" when there is a unique index violation on the target... Why do we not simply geht the OR...
over 5 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Unlock All Periods

In the Maintian -Period Locking – Change Multi Period Locking there is an option to "Unlock All Periods". How can we dsable this functionality for all users except ADM? This will minimise the risk of periods being left open for data entry.
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Search feature in "Create Data groups" like in Report studio "set limits"

If a data item has more than 32000 objects and you want to create data groups in dashboard. its limiting to 32000 items and if you want to use items that are beyond the initial pull you cannot find them.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Like to export any report to Excel Data or CSV form

Customer has a complex report with multiple pages that contain crosstabs lists and master detail links that when run to Excel Data do not display an error message but instead gets a blank page. When creating a simple crosstab report and exporting ...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DataStage DFD REST API should support stopping a running job and resetting a failed job

We are using DataStage to move large volumes of data into our data lake. We have our own UI our users use to run jobs that ingest their data into our data lake. The reason we have our UI instead having our users use DFD directly is to meet governa...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DataStage KafkaConnector should support kafka producer and consumer interceptors

We are using DataStage to move large volumes of data into our data lake. We are using DataStage kafkaconnector to read/write records from/to our kafka cluster and we will be using the Avro serializer and schema registry support that was just deliv...
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

User should be given an option to select AI prediction algorithm

With current design the tool decides the algorithm which works the best for the data. In certain scenarios, we might opt a different algorithm as per the business requirements. User should be given an option to choose the algorithm.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Recover database from "Backup in progress" hang state without restarting the database

When a full online backup is running and an Abinitio (DAIP) job runs and create new staging tables (or drop them), it caused an impact to the database that we are not able to recover from. Most of the tables (if not all) will be in a “Backup in pr...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enable Scrolling to view data on TM1Web/PASS Cube Viewer

Currently Cube Viewer when viewing a larger data size, it has the arrow for users to navigate to next page. However, when comparing using TM1 Perspective, user can scroll and view the full dataset by just scrolling instead of continuosly clicking ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Surrogate Key limit reached but job didn't abort

In the job , we are using one column with data type as 16-bit integer(SMALLINT) and the data range has exceeded in this month when we started from 31161 + 3883 and job has created same key for multiple records instead of failing and its ran succes...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration