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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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Exporting Lineage

We need that the exported file will contain resource key and will contain column lineage and in the same structure of the imported csv file. All this are not supported in current export lineage csv file.After changing the table structure we expect...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Needs more information

Reference data sets - product only supports a 2-tier hierarchy. Make it 3-tier for reference files

Having a 3-tier hierarchy for certain columns will help us to have different values/standards across domains even though the few codes and values are same between domains we want to have it's own group.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Storing Large Objects in file sytem

Feature similar to Oracle "bfile" data type. Store the large object in file system.
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

Support for endpoints in S3 connector

We need to write files into our company amazon s3 bucket with Datastage 11.5.0.2. We cannot tune the S3 Connector component with our specific endpoint, as we could using "endpoint" parameter with aws cli.
over 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Method to increase idle timeout for Controller Web (currently fixed at 60 minutes)

If a user is logged into Controller Web, but pauses using it (leaving it on screen but idle) they will get a problem if they don't click on anything (in Controller Web) for more than 60 minutes. If using Native authentication, it will just return ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Extend data import into cubes from a text file in PAW to non-admin users

Upload of data from file into a cube in Planning Analytics Workspace should be available for non admin users.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Ability to provide a tenant specific deployment-folder

As an tenant administrator I would like to export or import content from Cognos analytics. You can assign a export/import-definition to a specific tenant. The ZIP-files with content will end up in the deployment folder. There is just one deploymen...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improved retry handling for FA transfers based on status information

The request is needed since the retry for files in Accepted status is no more needed given that SWIFT retries for 4 hours, if after 4 hours a file is not sent, it means that a huge technical problem is likely affecting the receiver, in this case w...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

PAW - Custom dashboard template for single objects

PAW allow saving a single view object or a single websheet object into the folders. The issue is that these objects are stuck on a dashboard grid that goes beyond the visible area in the web page. This results in the object having two scrollbars: ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Global Search Search File Classification Scenario

Our team uses Global Search for searching some file. However, we would like to make use of the result list, but now there is no current functionality to export results nor is it able to integrate with Cognos. So we would like to raise this enhance...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 0 Not under consideration