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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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Snapshot functionality name is misleading

Generally snapshot means a backup at the point in time ,currently the snapshot functionality is the catalog of books , would be ideal to have proper snapshot functionality to back up and restore books , folders & security as the way it was dur...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add retention policies to extract files

In Optim Test Data Management the Optim Extract file is only of use for a limited period and can contain sensitive information if it's the initial extract from a production system. Practically customers do not wish to, nor should they hang on to e...
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Group thresholds based on application category

QM provides exceptions to collect certain details when we hit those thresholds. In my customer circle none of the customers are monitoring the system without multiple profiles. They simply define multiple lines to active profile with different fil...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Clopper Pearson Confidence Interval for frequency statistics in Bar-Graphs in Chart Builder

In the Chart Builder for Bar-Graphs the dialog offers the function to display error bars. This works fine for metric data, if "mean" or "median" is selected as statistics. But what is missing ist the function to display the error bars, if frequenc...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Access to NRTR_DATAMART

Before Upgrading from SQL to DB2 we had access to a similar table and setup an event to run when the Strcture code wasn't 75 (ok) when sending to FAP. when the code isn't 75 this stops the trickle feed to FAP from controller causing issue when rec...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Method / Option within Sync Setting to initiate a complete reload of the documents that have already been crawled.

Currently even if you make changes to the schedule or the SDU collection, which is the normal trigger to re-read a set of documents or Web site that has already been crawled. Documents that have not been altered / edited will not be include within...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

TCR "Complete and Approve" needs its own action that can be separated from the "Approve" action so the "Complete and Approve" action can be removed from TCR Operator while allowing the TCR operator to “Approve” his or her Units of Work.

TCR "Complete and Approve" needs its own action that can be separated from the "Approve" action so the "Complete and Approve" action can be removed from TCR Operator while allowing the TCR operator to “Approve” his or her Units of Work. If we remo...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Delivered

DFD engine as non-root user

As a financial company we have regulations around who get root access, it is strictly reserved only for server administration group personals. Our InformationServer/DataStage administration and support will not get any type of super user access (s...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Delivered

Requirement to resend timed-out transactions in bulks

To cover the requirement to resend timed-out transactions in bulks (selecting multiple alert objects from the FTM UI and resolve them at once) we see two different options: (1) Override the Outbound Transaction FSM, in particular the E_Heartbeat t...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Delivered

Persist isRecurring in CXCPayment

DescriptionUsing POST CXCPayment, we are sending a value for the isRecurring element. We are sending true for that value, however when we run a GET CXCParticipantView that value is not true (which we take to mean that the value is not stored in th...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 1 Delivered