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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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TI in PAW can reach external files

TI created in Perspectives can read/write to locations outside of TM1 data directories. When use the same TI in PAW, getting error of "not able to locate the file". admin agent service is running under an id that has all needed security permisson.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered

Ability to turn off or lock the new feature of automatically creating table structures when dropping objects

The new feature in Cognos 11.1.1 of automatically creating table structures when dropping an object. This makes nesting data items into the end column/row of a crosstab or table very difficult. It also makes reporting writing unnecessarily difficu...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Saving a package based data module takes minutes

When trying to create a data module based on a big FM package it takes 2-3 minutes for the data module to save. This should be improved so that saving the data module is faster. Support assumed that it could be the smarts service that takes a long...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Delivered

Ability to copy the content of a user's collection by another user

it would be good to be able to copy the content of a user's collection by another user. Example, if I have a crawler set up to crawl some data, and I created a collection, I should be able to export that collection and share it with someone else. ...
about 8 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Delivered

Enable pversions script with a new option --patchdb <path-to-patch-db>

At Morgan Stanley, we have the patch data saved under each release directory /ms/dist/3rd/PROJ/symphony/7.3.2-fp2.9/exec/patch/patchdb, to ease the query under that MS release, we would suggestion that if we can add a new option in pversions scrip...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Delivered

Support High Availablity for namenode in File Connector stage

As with most big data installations, we have a primary and a secondary namenode for the cluster. When the primary namenode fails over to the secondary namenode (or vice versa), a Big Integrate Data Stage job using the File Connector WebHDFS access...
about 8 years ago in Connectivity 2 Delivered

Replicating clone tables from a source data store and tables which have a clone table defined

As per IDR 11.4, support is not provided either for replicating source clone tables or for replicating tables which have a clone table defined. We need to be able to replicate source tables involved in clone relationships.

Can we integrate Data Connect API with DSx?

So ETL and data cleansing can be easier
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Delivered

WKC Cloud: Support of RDS for Oracle

There is no icon of RDS for Oracle on connection page. There are many RDS for Oracle user, they need to connect to RDS for Oracle in order to manage data governance.
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered

OpenPages -- Scrollbars in Read-only mode

In OpenPages Detail View, scrollbars are possible only in Edit Mode but not in Read-only mode. Per business request, the data inside a single field would be with many characters, The scrollbars are required even in Edit Mode such that end users ca...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Delivered