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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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Check log files during log archival

To detect as early as possible that there are storage issues or file system issues in log dir, checking the checksum of log files during log archival would help to identify issues early, fix the issue and allow to take a new backup to get database...
over 7 years ago in Db2 1 Delivered
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Output CSV file, change delimiter at report level

Merged
Currently RSVP.CSV.DELIMITER allows a tab (default) or comma selection when a report is output as a CSV file type. This is a global selection and causes issues when third party applications require files to be sent, but each one potentially differ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Delivered

Enhance uploading files within Task Focused UI

Uploading files within in the Task Focused UI has currently some limitations:- not possible to add other fields (e.g. enumerated fields) within upload screen- the version history is not available within the Task Focused UI- Download button within ...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 5 Delivered

Enhance EXPLAIN in order to no longer need Informix server access

Currently Informix EXPLAIN generates a server side file. For developers that are working from remote machines, it becomes problematic to retrieve the explain files when they have restricted access to the Informix Server machine. There are 2 undocu...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Delivered

Drive Explorer: use Shift button to select multiple files

In the Rich Tier remote access to the S drive we were able to use native Windows Explorer functionality to select one file, hold down the Shift key, and select multiple other files. In Drive Explorer this is only allowing the options of All Files ...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Whenever you offer 'Export to PDF' allow also export to csv (or some other computer-readable format)

PDF is fine as a document of its own, for sharing/documenting as a static copy. However, if we would try to further refine the info and join it with something else, then pdf is useless. Trying to extract same info from reporting database would be ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

Temporal Base Table SQLOUT INSERTS have generate always columns as part of the insert

The timestamp columns supporting temporal should not be part of the INSERT. Also anytime a generate always column is excluded as it should have been in this run, columns must be added to the INSERT statement. --UNDO SQL FOR SUBSYSTEM: DAA1 --L...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 4 Delivered

Errors and standard output to be written to a log file.

want errors and standard output to be written to a log file. When an error occurs in executing a node created with extension node or custom node dialog builder, nothing is displayed in console output. It takes a lot of time to identify the problem...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Delivered
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CSV generation options

Merged
When the users run Cognos reports in workspace advanced they have an option to export the results to a CSV file. Some customers need the delimiter as commas whereas others need the delimiter as tab. currently Cognos allows only one as an option in...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

LOAD a TABLE with WHEN / DISCARD

When loading a table with WHEN and DISCARD, rows that do not qualify because of the WHEN condition get "discarded" and:- discard file is populated with them- it is impossible to distinguish records discarded because of the WHEN clause and e.g. the...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered