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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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The Questionnaire comments is limited to 256 chars and there's no setting to increase it

Would allow users to input a longer comment and we would not have to always make an attachment available for every questions we want the comment option on. We have ot include the attachment option so if the user has a long comment they can write i...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Delivered

PAW - Error correcting algorithm for invalid members

Building a set for a view in PAW, the system tries to record the parent of a selected member whenever it can with a MUN of the format “PARENT^ELEMENT” (in order to be make the drill-up function available). However our end-user won’t make the diffe...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Expansion of Data Dictionary to Include Non-Connected Assets and APIs

The UI should provide basic import capabilities to allow assets to be created/maintained in the data dictionary from metadata provided in .csv format (or similar). These assets may or may not have associated connection information in CP4D but shou...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Custom attribute value doing a live lookup on the table, instead of predefined value

This functionality is for the Custom Attribute to be able to connect to a database and then read the data from a table and display as a drop down. Also it must be indexed (searchable) so that the user can search by typing visually. The other requi...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Dynamic stopping criterion - An effective way to interrupt the optimal solution search for MILP

Please, see the attached document-
over 6 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 4 Delivered

New Enhancements for InformixHQ tool

Latest InformixHQ version released along with Informix 14 database server do not have enough rich features to investigate the database server related some commonly used issues to drill down and identify the issues quickly and easily. The suggested...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 4 Delivered

The REST step found a large input data item whose size actual data size exceeds the supported size limit maximum data size li

DataStage job is not able to import the file of size 350MB using xml hierarchical stage. When we tried to import the file of lesser size the response from REST API call is Success. Where as in this case the REST API response is Fail. In this case ...
almost 8 years ago in Connectivity 3 Delivered

Unable to change server in exploration reports in PAX

Currently in exploration mode it is not possible to edit the field which contains the server name which the report refers to. You simply cannot change the value. In the quick report properties e.g. this is possible. See attached screenshots. Can y...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Quick command to "Blue box" in PAW

Our users feels that there sometimes is difficult to go through the blue box to be able to export to excel. It is especially difficult if it is a large view and a small screen, when they feel that they can't always get hold of the blue box. They w...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Period locked indication in Cognos Web

There is a feature to lock a period in Cognos Controller. As a result of the same, when a user tries to amend any data, it does not allow to update/input any value. Same period is unlocked in Cognos Web for same entity. Web user is unable to updat...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered