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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Search results: Information Server

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Information Analyzer Virtual Tables - Parameters

Problem: Currently within the Virtual Tables and SQL Virtual Tables there is no way to pass a Parameter externally within a Filter Condition. As an example if I am using a date filter in a VT or SQL VT that extracts the data for a given day or giv...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 3 Not under consideration

To have a feature to update multiple ETLs at once thru DataStage designer interface

The idea is to have an additional tool or feature to allow multiple updates of similar changes to ETLs at once. This has to be done through DataStage interface. As IBM support has confirmed, 'there is no supported way of doing it' currently. Curre...
over 6 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

Transfer of term relationships from asset (column) of one DB host system to an asset (column) of another DB host system

===============Problem Scenario=============== An organization has recently migrated one of their databases (let's say, they shifted from SQL to PostgreSQL). As a result there have been changes to the host name of the DB, DB name, Schema name etc....
over 2 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Please provide roll back feature for information server fix packes

We have experienced technical problem with fix packs of IBM information server ( v 11.3.0) and not able to roll back . Due to this we have system downtime. We request IBM to please provide roll back feature on FP on information server side so we c...
almost 10 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Request For ESSBase native connector in InfoSphere Information Server (IIS)

As per our Business Team discussion, we need to get the ESSBASE native connector in IIS(V11.5) We Currently have IIS 11.5 Suit Installed with all products of ETL, Data Cleaning, Quality and Governance tools, Please provide ESSBASE native connector...
over 7 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Auto refresh after edit mapping in Extension Mapping in IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog

After edit mapping in Extension Mapping Document, Data Lineage related these Extension Mapping not affect. First workaround action: export, edit in csv file, then re-import EMD again. Better workaround action: run the link https://<Domain-Serve...
over 4 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration