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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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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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Search for text snippets across an Action of an Assistant

In the dialog mode, its possible to perform a search for text snippets within the Nodes, which greatly facilitates in the customer's daily tasks when its needed to find specific information and direct it exactly to where the data is located. For e...
11 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Submitted

Maintenance page instead of Cognos start page only for standard users, not for admins

If we have problems with Cognos, we want to withdraw access from all users except for admins so data / reports can be tested after successful repairs. The Cognos information banner does not help, because it is overlooked. Furthermore, users can by...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Enable Primary Key & Foreign Key Support for all connections Especially for GBQ connection

We request an Enhancement to support Primary key and foreign key relationships in GBQ connection types. Currently this functionality is unavailable in v5.1.1, impacting our ability to maintain data integrity and enforce relationships in our Data l...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Capture DB segment replace calls which actual data is not updated.

Our client is currently using Dprop(IMS DataPropagater for z/OS) for creating Data Warehouse. Dprop captures replace calls and writes to PRDS(Propagation Request Data Set) even when DB segment was not actually updated. Client’s Dprop application p...
about 3 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Manage TM1 instance administration programatically (on cloud)

Currently on cloud, there is no way to manage the start/stop of TM1 servers programmatically. The only way to stop/start an instance is by going through PAW Administration or schedule an automatic restart by asking the cloud ops. On premise, we ha...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Azure Synapse supported for ELT run mode

We have many customers who have an appetite for cost-reduction with their cloud warehouses. We have had multiple conversations with customers around leveraging Datastage writing to S3 in iceberg format, to be integrated with the warehouse like Sno...
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

UNLOAD Utility

The ability to UNLOAD a table (including using SQL) is required. Additionally, the ability to UNLOAD from an image COPY is required. We need the same type of capability that is available in Db2 for z/OS. We copy/migrate (via LOAD) data from one en...
11 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

Enhance CDC z/OS to support Db2 z/OS RBA/LRSN values in full length (New JCF: COMMITSEQ/INTENTSEQ)

We plan to migrate existing SQL Replication CCD tables to CDC Live Audit tables. For that we need to identify the exact values for the source RBA/LRSN log-points to keep the original sequence of DML and to identify the COMMIT scope of the transact...
almost 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration
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Add support for Master-Detail Relationships to 11.x Visualizations

Merged
As of writing (Cognos Release 11.2), only the "old" traditional charts support Master-Detail Relationships which allow you to drive/filter the data within a chart by data of a containing element, e.g. you might create a list and add a chart for ea...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Switch the "IBM Data Server Client" over to an MSI installer for Windows machines

Currently the installer uses an ancient InstallShield installer that is a nightmare to roll out. It would be nice if it could be transitioned over to an MSI installer because those are easier to uninstall and roll out.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review