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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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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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Switch DNS server for ALL Quick /Exploration reports to backup if prod fails

Assuming I am running a PAL/PAW/PAW setup and at the same time I have a backup system which is doing an hourly backup of my entire production system. If my production system gets corrupted, then I can immediately switch over to my backup setup so ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for API / Object Storage for OpenPages Storage.

The idea to support Cloud based storage services that offer API integration options, such as Amazon S3, Azure's File Storage services API, Dell EMC S3 extension, etc. Integration with the storage lifecycle features would be useful.
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 3 Not under consideration

Include jdbc oracle string in Search properties file to allow Failover options

Currently, in the Search server properties files, there is option to mention only DB Host name and we can enter only 1 Host name. It would be helpful to add a failover string like in aurora.properties file where we can mention the database.url ins...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 3 Not under consideration

Support multiple RDP sessions on windows to support remote 3D application

remote virtualization is becoming more and more important when client is truing to building a HPC cluster. They are intending to put the pre and post simulation work on remote clusters with GPU cards without downloading the files. And also make th...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Log file rotation for Connection Manager on Windows

Using the Connection Manager LOGFILE token, it is not possible to rotate logs. Therefore they become large and unwieldy
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Adding enableWLB via command db2cli writcfg add -dsn <alias> -parameter "enableWLB=true"

As discussed in PMR 01458,999,724 adding enableWLB parameter with "db2cli writecfg add..." is a known limitation.Could you please remove this limitation. Workaround is to edit XML-file db2dsdriver.cfg manually.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

DataStage Ad-hoc SQL execution support

Using IBM DataStage 11.3, I observed that DatStage does not have flexible option to execute SQL and capture its output. I understand its doable if we use ODBC/Sybase stage but I want to execute SQL during sequence activities to decide on course of...
almost 10 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Deliver server installation as Docker package

With Microsoft looking to implement support for Docker (docker.com), it could be nice to have a delivery option as a Docker package. Not necessarily via dockerhub, it's possible to load and use a docker image from a downloaded file as well.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

FastTrack all mapping folder/project export to csv and/or export all Source field and Target field for all project/folder.

kevinyan (IBM) 28 Apr 2019 ‎10‎:‎00‎ ‎PM Hi Divyesh, As my local test and discussion with IBM internal development team, there is no feature to export all the mapping specifications for the specified project into CSV format, rather than isx ...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Please provide roll back feature for information server fix packes

We have experienced technical problem with fix packs of IBM information server ( v 11.3.0) and not able to roll back . Due to this we have system downtime. We request IBM to please provide roll back feature on FP on information server side so we c...
almost 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration