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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.

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.

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Request for Manta Data Export Format Alignment with Alation's Native Lineage Expectations

We need confirmation on how Manta exports lineage data to Alation to ensure it matches Alation's native lineage structure. Specifically, we are requesting details on: 1. Data Format: The exact format in which Manta sends data to Alation. 2. Lineag...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Under review

Automating Java Code Fixes in WCA4z with Agentic AI

Business Challenge Current Limitation: The WCA4z tool transforms legacy code into Java. However, the transformed Java code often contains syntax or semantic errors that require significant manual intervention to fix. This process is time-consuming...
3 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

TRIGGERS referencing system temporal tables

Hello, Since we are in DB2 V10 we use triggers with bi-temporal tables (system temporal + business temporal table) to implement complex relational integrity rules that can not be defined using standard primary/foreign keys. It's related to simple ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Hide/show/enable/disable dashboard filter bar based on custom role/group or setting

We have a scenario where the dashboard author would like end users to interact with the dashboard but not allow them to change any filters in the filters bar so that the user experience is consistent. This is helpful in a scenario where if the aut...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0

Compatibility of SDS_ALTERNATE and logged SBSPACE

Our Standard Informix Cluster consists of Primary, SDS and RSS Server. While testing Failover with broken Network, we recognized that it is possible to get two Primarys when DRAUTO = 3 is set and the Network Connection of the Primary is interrupte...
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Add full interactivity to reports as it is in dashboards

Better, more user friendly and consistent user experience across both dashboards and reports.
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Dashboard Style Dropper

In reporting, there is a 'Pick up style options dropper' which per the documentation is used to copy the formatting of items in the report such as fonts, colors, borders etc. and apply the formatting to other items. I would like to see the same fu...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Show tooltips in the Dashboard metadata tree for FM Packages

Tooltips created in Framework Manager are very useful for explaining the meaning of data items and query subjects to the end user. They appear in the Reporting UI metadata tree, but don't appear in the Dashbaord UI metadata tree. This should be co...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Create new SQL-VIEW to show ALL GRANTS

Today we have a useful sql-view named SYSIBMADM.PRIVILEGES that aggregates in a consistent and easy way to query all different types of privileges that are currently granted to an authid. This is very useful. But we lack some other stuff like info...
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Provide capability to set DSSIZE for implicitly created LOB Auxiliary Tablespaces

Currently an implicitly created LOB Auxiliary TS DSSIZE is set to 4G and does not adhere to the zparm IMPDSSIZE or the base TS DSSIZE. We would like the capability to influence the default DSSIZE for LOBs.This would also make it consistent with th...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration