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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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Support of encrypted fields by Anonymization API

OpenPages 8.0.0.1 introduced the capability to anonymize data through a set of API methods. These methods do not work on encrypted fields, meaning that there is currently no way to anonymize data if it is stored in fields that are encrypted.When s...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Not under consideration

Support new connection type for watsonx.data and support for Spark engines in it

Documentation: https://ibm-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/p/shrinivas_kulkarni_in/EcUbCoYhyVRJmWrwscDVUx8B0jxHp5cqCLtr4E7xuCGDMw?e=tbj8w8 Future State Support for new connection type to point to a specific Spark Engine of watsonx.data, either on SaaS or so...

Improve auditing possibilities

As Db2 for z/OS users, we want to use the AUDIT POLICY functionality to support internal and external auditors and provide the proof of proper allowed access to Db2 z/OS objects, especially in the form of SQL queries using input host variables (“f...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Display description with enabling line feed, or enable to write with rich text

Problem statement/pain point: In the panel for individual asset, we have description section in left side panel most upper item. Description section shows max 300 character description for the asset. In this customer use case, in order to streaml...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Suport Multiple data marts in Controller FAP fully

A customer publishes several datamarts from a single source. Structures are updated in Controller and the user goes into FAP administration and tries to update structures on all datamarts concurrently. Sometimes this will fail because the temporar...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Under review

Request for CDC Restart from Specific Bookmark or Timestamp in IBM CDC

We would like to know if IBM CDC offers a feature to start Change Data Capture (CDC) from a specific bookmark position or from a particular date and time via the Management Console, similar to the start option provided by Attunity, which allows sp...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Update the Open Source CLI commands package

Having this makes it easier to build interfaces to the data.
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Future consideration

Enhance ALTER of STOGROUP

Would like additional flexibility to change storage options without taking outages. First situation, we had a special storage group defined with a specific STORCLAS that was used to isolate a specific subset of data. That isolation is no longer ne...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Searchable tree prompt

It is a common pain point to navigate hierarchies in order to select elements for reporting. The tree prompt is the only prompt object that properly displays hierarchical information. However, it lacks a search feature leading to excessive time sp...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 3 Planned for future release

SAS datasets for IKC Data Quality Requirements

We have a new customer request for analyzing SAS dataset( in .sas7bdat format) in IKC for Data Quality requirements. As per IBM point of contact for us, this connector is not available in IKC now. Requesting to add this connector in CP4D future re...
about 1 year ago in Connectivity 3 Under review