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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Load to 'More Information' fields for Companies

I would like a method to load data to the 'More Information' fields in the Company structure. Now that there are 30 fields available I would like to use them to store information my company has in spreadsheets and sql tables. Having to manually...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Audit Grading Requirements

According to the company's IT auditing requirements, system users need to be audited, and statistical analysis of users and systems. But once the system opens the audit function, there are too many things to audit, which seriously affects the norm...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Batch exception not available out of box

There is a business requirement not to reject the entire batch. We experimented with relaxing PAIN schema validation, but found that the code does not support that. (The result is unacceptable: a "Failed" batch will be interrupted at the point of ...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / TCH RTP 1 Not under consideration

Allow DVM to access alternative credentials from a RACF or ICSF repository instead of using global variables

We would like for DVM to be able to seamlessly access RACF in order to retrieve alternative credentials for users that are accessing data behind LDAP security. The current solution is to use AVZDRATH utility to create the alternative credentials....
over 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Delivered

Create utility to generate encrypted password in the same manner as AVZDRATH

Currently, AVZDRATH has the ability to take in an encrypted password as input, however there are no other utilities available to generate the encrypted password outside of AVZDRATH. Since our DVM support team will be responsible for managing the g...
over 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

merge node: join small local dataset to large remote dataset by sending the local data literally in the sql query

In a merge node, when joining a small local dataset to a large remote database table, Modeler downloads the entire contents of the large table in order to perform the join. This is often prohibitive. Instead, if the local dataset is small enough (...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

terminate rollback

When database is rollback a long transaction , it may take a long time. User don't want to wait for rollback to finish. One scenario is that user has made a large change on a table that is not that important table so they are willing to drop it (o...
over 6 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

IIDR CDC Support for Oracle Exadata

We are moving all our Oracle Databases to ORacle Exadata Database Servers. After migrating, when we try to replicate data from Exadata to Netezza using IBM CDC (IIDR), IIDR doesn't like Exadata. When talking to IBM support, we figured that IIDR is...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Functionality already exists

Option to fetch Sub Types while exporting the WKS ML model to use in Content Analytics

We have a requirement to use WKS ML model in Content Analytics. I have created subtypes in the WKS model for better understanding of the data. But I am not able to fetch those subtypes while exporting as there is only option to use mentions and re...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Importing metadata via JDBC Data Connection should show accurate db_name

When discovering assets in 11.7.1, using a JDBC data connection, "the database name to use might differ from the actual database name, depending on the JDBC driver. For example, for Db2 you might need to use db2, and for Oracle ibm." This is docum...
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Delivered