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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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In depth Matching algorithm tuning should be performed in the UI, and not requiring a third party application like Postman or Insomnia

In the current state, we cannot tune the algorithm to the needs of CTC's customer context without having a technical counterpart who can access the JSON object. In a target state (ideal), we would be able to change the 1) source level threshold 2)...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 1 Planned for future release

New Enhancements for InformixHQ tool

Latest InformixHQ version released along with Informix 14 database server do not have enough rich features to investigate the database server related some commonly used issues to drill down and identify the issues quickly and easily. The suggested...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 4 Delivered

Optim Separate File LOB Extract

Optim Connect does not offer a way to extract CLOBS or BLOB data types to separate files. If you have a file imbedded in a BLOB field a 3rd party tool is required to extract the data. Optim Connect does not have support for CLOBs and maps it t...
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Application Retirement 0 Not under consideration

IBM Manta : The export of data lineage from Manta Flow Viewer UI for a revision to PNG format needs high resolution.

Problem: Post workflow execution, when you preview a data lineage for a revision in manta flow viewer ui and export the lineage in PNG format. Next, when we try to use the export PNG file for data lineage in a PowerPoint Slide. The image is not cl...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Enhance Watson Assistant Entity Recognition

As a recommendation for a future upgrade, it would help if IBM could enhance the ability of Watson Assistant to recognize Entities using machine learning (sort of like Intents are recognized) such that an Entity of "arm pain" with synonyms like "s...
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Save off openshift logs when a POD is recycled or crashes.

When an OPENSHIFT POD is either recycled or if a POD crashes the log conatined within the POD is lost. Even though there are 3rd party options to save the log(s) we believe IBM should make it part of their deployment to have the logs saved off. Th...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 2 Functionality already exists

Enable additional Header/ content in CSV format for report output

We are creating a report that we will export as a CSV file that will then be imported/uploaded to a 3rd party site. The 3rd party site has strict formatting requirements. For example, the first line of the CSV file is additional header with text i...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Continued support for OpenIGC for all future versions of WKC

Many customers have invested significant resources to build custom metadata and lineage integration to custom and 3rd party applications using OpenIGC. With the planned removal of IGC components from WKC, these customers would be faced with signif...
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Delivered

Add IBM Pervasive Encryption (PE) support to IBM Optim for on z/OS

Many z/OS customers deploy IBM Pervasive Encryption (PE) dataset encryption to protect their sensitive PCI and PII data. IBM Optim data extract datasets contain such sensitive PCI and PII data unloaded from Db2 for z/OS tables and must be encrypte...
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 3 Delivered

Fix the Party Relationship Transactions

We’ve recently stubbed our toes on an inconsistency in the implementations of addPartyRelationShip()/getPartyRelationship()/updatePartyRelationship(). The CONTACTREL tables, as well as the transactions above, explicitly represent the relationships...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted