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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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Include "Drop unmatched fields" option in the Generic jdbc and Database stages using jdbc

Currently we use the property "Drop unmatched fields" in our jobs to run any SQL's in our database stages which has hard coded values, the option is present in generic odbc and in the native database stages which enables us to use the hard coded S...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 2 Delivered

Capture cost and path information for New SQL to help DBAs determine if there might be an access problem

There is a new release of application code. Currently SQL/PA does a COMPARE of current and previous access paths. There is a hole for NEW SQL that takes a bad access path. DBAs need to know if this is occurring.
over 5 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Delivered

Allow for use of RACF passtickets when connecting to Db2 zOS

The current DSM documentation states to use a non-expiring RACF id for the DSM repository connection to z/OS and the connection profile "Data collection" credentials. Non expiring RACF ids are not allowed by our Security and Controls team. This pr...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

WKC API must return a specific error messages

WKC API must return a specific error so VZ can pinpoint why an extract is failing When the data profiling script is executed, we are receiving errors/ exceptions from the WKC API call intermittently. The response error code that it returns is not ...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

PAW created/edited TI processes are backward compatible with Architect

I used Planning Analytics Workspace to make a change in a TI that used a cube datasource. I did a save as, so I could ask a co-worker about a change and not overwrite the original. My co-worker was using architect when he opened the TI and made a ...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Delivered

Add more date operation in Data Refinery

Currently Data Refinery doesn't have default operation to manipulate date type data. For example, to manipulate date type of field by adding several days to the original fields, we need to use following custom code: mutate(ExpiryDate = as.Date( Pu...
over 3 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 0 Delivered

IBM OpenPages required to retrieve password from CyberArk

To integrate OpenPages with CyberArk Agent for password retrieval, the current OpenPages approach of storing encrypted password on OpenPages server is not acceptable. IBM OpenPages needs to retrieve password from CyberArk Agent on-demand using one...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Delivered

LISTAGG - Reduce workfile usage of function LISTAGG

The function LISTAGG uses a lot of workfile space. This can lead to abends, especially if there are many groups. This is the specific case where the problem occurred in our company: SELECT A.GES_SL, A.VNR, A.POS_LNR , SUBSTR(LISTAGG(TA_ID,'/') WIT...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Feature addition in Editor (TI or Rule)

When more loops will be used in the code, it becomes easier in the notepad++, it becomes easier with the the vertical lines to relate the starting point(initialization like IF keyword) with the end point (terminator like related EndIF) in the Note...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Additional colours on dashboard charts

Subject to the charts remaining in the 8.1 release, we thought the colour ranges available on the charts were quite limited. We do like this feature and would like it retained, but think it could be improved with a few more colours. As an aside, w...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered