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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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  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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Allow defining rolling container windows defined on user defined calendars

Currently time series rolling window containers can only be defined to use a predetermined set of calendars to define the number of time points included in each window. Those are: day, week, month, and year. There is a need for more flexibility. T...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

data module – default settings for “optimization” while creating join

Current functionality: there are two ways to create a join within a data module: Option 1: mark the two tables, right click and create join, this will cause a 1:n relationship with an “Unique values” optimization. Option 2: select one table, use t...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Address Manta log-viewer API timeout performance

Current state: When a Manta user tries to download a workflow log (to debug or attach to a support ticket), the Manta instance often (in 99% cases) returns with a HTTP 504 Gateway timeout error. This happens because:1. Manta is connected to an AWS...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Not under consideration

Personal (My Content) Data Server Connections

Allow individuals (non-admin users) to create their own data server connections, but not be able to share them or allow others to use them. That way an individual can setup connections to sources that they have access to in order to do one off rep...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Sort order of workbooks

In the PAW portal you can sort books by name, last changed, created date, the problem is that the selected setting does not stick the next time users log in.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW Turbo Integrator (TI)

Processes that use Process/source views that were created in the Rich Tier environment error out or don't load data properly because the current functionality skips Consolidated and Rule calculated values by default. This requires the view to be m...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

BRMS Recovery Report - Missed Objects

We recently had an IBMi system that lost 2 disks in the same RAID set and lost the machine. We had to rebuild from BRMS tape and after the system was made available, users indicated data was incomplete. In researching, it appears there is no easy ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Implement nested loop join of external and indexed tables

We raised a support case for this, but creating here will help it progress. The description was as shown below. Please vote for it! Regards,Doug LawryOninit Consulting Try this in the "stores_demo" database: SET EXPLAIN ON;SELECT {+USE_NL(cust...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Export Dialog as Pretty Table

Export dialog as pretty table so that it can be printed, reviewed, and audited by a third party outside the tooling. For every response, create a row that record the relevant information such as: - which node do this response belong to (i.e. node ...
over 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Issue with StringToNumber function depending on locale

When the function StringToNumber is used, the TM1 process uses the client's locale/language to set the decimal and thousand separators when the client creates a process. After a process is created the decimal and thousand separators will not chang...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration