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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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Request to easily integrate custom scripts into the managed, SaaS DataStage Runtime

Our company is using Cloud Pak for Data as a managed service, which means we don't have direct access to the OpenShift platform or any of the pods or servers that run the Cloud Pak services, like the DataStage server. Occasionally with on-prem Dat...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Support for spatial datatype in Cognos BI

Nowday many companies have location based data stored in the database. The location based data can be a location or area on the field. Many database vendors supports geo spatial datatype and functions like DB2, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server.
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration
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DFD should provide message handler feature.

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When customer compared two tables by Diff Stage, a warning messages were output for each difference. If there are too many differences in comparing two tables, many warning message would also be output. (ex : If there are differences in 100,000 ro...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

RESTAPI needed to update dropdown values (ENUMVAL content)

RBS will use an IBM Hosted instance of OpenPages and need to automate the content of reference data as far as possible and will use the RESTAPI to do this (eg Load FX Rates). We need to maintain the content of the Application dropdown list (enumer...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 0 Not under consideration

Bulk Data and File/Link Move should be part of core platform

There are no standard platform delivered tools to bulk move business data, files and link objects. Often data has to be moved on mass to support organisation hierarchy changes, in particular split or merge changes.Services have to be engaged to cu...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Not under consideration

TM1 as a data source from multiple BI environments

Want to be able to use a TM1 instance, in security mode 5 as a data source for multiple BI environments. In latest PMR 64563,122,000 it was mentioned we are reaching this limitation:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21657623"Current...
over 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

New TI Datasource - json/xml/Web Service

Nowadays many applications are exporting data via web service (format could be json or xml), Planning Analytics has no options out of the box to support these type of data sources. At the moment, either using TM1py, or get some developer to write ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - Use Data Modules as Source for Dynamic Cubes

Would like the ability to use Data Modules as a meta-data source for Dynanic Cube Designer.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include mask for DFSPARM

One of our customers working with REORG jobs built using Automation tool 4.3 have normally problems of "Sort Capacity exceeded". In order to solve this problem, our customer is using a customized skeleton HAAREORJ with syntaax: //DFSPARM DD * OPTI...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow TEMPLATE switching for more data sets in REORG and LOAD

Allow TEMPLATE switching in the REORG TABLESPACE, REORG INDEX and LOAD utilities for the necessary work files. For example, small objects may only require data sets with DSNTYPE BASIC and large objects may require data sets with DSNTYPE EXTREQ or ...
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration