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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.

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Add parameter to the OPRestore command to perform the restore without including the Database

Case TS000882074By policy , the OPBackup command is executed once a month, the app-nodb parameter is used so that the database is not included in the backup because it already has its own backup policy.This same process can not be performed for th...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 0 Not under consideration

Loss Event Entry App - Usability - Validations

When going to submit a new Loss Event using the IBM Loss Event Entry app, if one of the fields is not correct, the submit button is greyed out. It is difficult, as a user, to know what the issue is. Highlighting the fields with wrong values would ...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Not under consideration

Support for VARBINARY data type (HANA) in DQM in IBM Cognos Analytics

The import of fields with the data type VARBINARY from HANA in IBM Framework Manager rises an error. To connect to HANA DQM mode is required. The import of fields with an VARBINARY data type in IBM Framework Manager causes the DQM-error XQE-GEN-00...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

prevent LSF docker jobs from failing with unuseful error message

When submitting docker jobs, using LSF (with the -app bsub option), the entire user's env is sent directly to the docker-current command (with the --env-file docker option), even though the docker-current command does not accept certain env variab...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Allow creation "user named" hdfs files in Analytic Server

Although you can create Analytic Server Output that will write data in hdfs, it is generally creates a folder with the AS output name and a set of partition files inside it. On rerun, even if "overwrite" option is chosen on the AS Export node, new...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 0 Not under consideration

DB2 Connect EF Core support in Azure Function with WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE enabled

when running in azure functions it is severely recommended you have WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE enabled as this makes your runtime code secure. however we found via support case with IBM that the license directory must ALWAYS be writable and there is...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Monitor DB2 Client

Setup: Currently we have a db2 client installed on the NFS and mounted on all of our app servers. A soft link created from app server home path to the db2profile NFA to access the client from app servers. Pain point: More than 800+ Nodes and 2000+...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Request to enhance ACM to support SFTP

ACM (Advanced Catalog Management) currently supports only FTP. Unfortunately, our customer is disabling FTP protocol organization-wide and pushing all apps to migrate to SFTP. Request to enhance ACM to support SFTP.
over 2 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Support for Apps Dynamic for monitoring server and Application

We would like IBM to provide support for Apps Dynamic in future releases. currently Apps Dynamic is not supported by Planning Analytics and cognos analytics and as Larger Enterprise we have need for these kind monitoring Application for performanc...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Watson Discovery : Box connector should be able to crawl with Service Accounts when "App Access Only" is selected

https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-connector-box-cloud&locale=en While configuring a Box connector, many customers need to select "App Access Only" for security reason. With that, currently only App Users are select...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration