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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.

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Support Arrays in Cognos

Per IBM, currently it does not support data type of arrays...In some complex data models we need this type of data type to be supported by cognos for reporting...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

can we download the preview of data asset which is from a data connection

Please take a look at the screenshot in the attachment, the download icon is gray(unusable) when the data asset is from a data connection. Is it possible to make the download work for the data connection asset preview?
about 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

ask for adding "description" into the columns of data asset in Project UI

Please see the two pictures in the attachments: "describe 2": when we click on the data asset , we can see the "description" in the red borders. "describe 1": we hope that "description" also can show in the data asset overview columns which can he...
about 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Support additional headers for dbapi context

Additional HTTP headers are only supported for console context and not for dbapi context. Please support this also for dbapi context. We need to use the data for our web frontend. This is using java script, so we need the header required for CORS....
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

UOW size for mass delete on table with data capture

requesting that DB2 generate reasonably sized URs when performing a mass delete action against a table with DATA CAPTURE set to CHANGES. in a specific case, we were rotating partitions on a base source table which was being replicated with data ca...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Replication 0 Future consideration

Replicate USERID for IIDR CDC PostgreSQL Source

IIDR CDC can replicate data from PostgreSQL. One of limitation of this replication is that IIDR CDC cannot replicate &USERID metadata information due to PostgreSQL limitation on logical decoding. Basically, this USERID information is very usef...
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Want to use the crawl date as a date in the Content Miner when using the web crawler.

The customer used oneWEX before, and has been migrating to WD Premium service since June 2021. However the customer are suffering from lack of functionality in WD. In oneWEX, when crawled data with using the web crawler, it was possible to set ...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

Entity Identifier converted to String in Match360 Data Explorer to allow for complex searches

We've come across the limitation in Master Data Explorer's advanced search, where entity identifier with a condition of "starts with" or "ends with" breaks upon searching. The reason - as explained by Master Data Explorer Development Team - is tha...
about 2 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Future consideration

Db2 disconnected System Assessment

At the moment Db2 AI for z/OS needs to be connected to do System Assessment.We've got a couple of Db2 production systems of different customers and our idea is to install Db2 AI for z/OS on one seperated lpar. The main purpose of this installation...
about 4 years ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Restrict access of non system data by instance owner

We manage many database systems however as a service provider we do not want the ability to access customer data unless a customer enables this access to us. This should be set at the time of database creation and should not be something that can ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration