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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,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Formatting on Planning Analytics not applied as default format in Cognos Analytics.

Problem statement: A solution was created by a US team in Planning Analytics with a set of percentages, the data was then vizualised in Cognos Analytics. We have user all over the world, and users have set the content language to their local langa...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Read-only mode

In some situations it would be helpful set single cells / widgets / sheets / workbooks as "read only". (Do not allow data entry).
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

support "fixed record length" for load/import with UTF8

Load and import do not support "fixed record length" for MBCS.The field offsets have to be specified in bytes only.There is no possibility to let the data movement tools "think in letters, instead of bytes".
about 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

InSync to NOT disable query acceleration

When IBM Integrated Synchronization detects an error condition for a table, that table is removed from acceleration to prevent Db2 from returning stale data because no more updates are synchronized to Accelerator. The incremental update process in...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Option to delete backend PVC upon Storage Volume deletion

We would need to have an option to delete the back end Openshift PVC upon deleting the Storage volume from CPD UI. Based on our experience and the case I raised with IBM Support, looks like this doesn't happen now and PVC will still remain as is e...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Ice berg table format and connector for datastage Infosphere Information server:Generic- 11.7.1.4

Hello Team, We have datastage 11.7.1.4 implemeted on premises on bare metal server. We have database on DB2 DPF IIAS 2C2S in RDBMS. Customer is planning to migrate DB2 RDBMS data to Iceberg table format via datastage to private cloud. If we can ha...
9 months ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

GUI in the form of a crosstab to quickly scan data connections versus permissions, roles versus capabilities

When we need to quickly monitor/ review for example the setting of certain permissions for all dataconnections (we have about 70+), we need to open for each dataconnection the properties, go to the permission tab and write down on a separate sheet...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[SAP Pack] ABAP Extract Stage's non-default ftp port setup support request

hello I want to use ftp, the data transfer method of ABAP Extract Stage. There is no ability to specify ftp port. The use of the ftp default port 21/tcp shows up as a vulnerability in security audits, so a different port must be used. The ibm case...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Audit Data Volume from Reports

Request the ability to audit the volume of data returned from requests (queries, reports, analysis, etc).
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

(G) for generated like © for copyright

Simply put, instead of: // Assisted by watsonx Code Assistant // Code generated by WCA@IBM in this programming language is not approved for use in IBM product development. def some_generated_function(data): return process(data) This: # (G) ibm-gra...
9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 0 Not under consideration