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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 Datepicker for PAW Action Button Process Control Type

When a user runs a process that requires a date to be provided as part of the action (i.e. start date or effective from) it is not possible to provide a datepicker to control the input, instead the Process parameter prompt must be specified to gui...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Show description in table view(Available Assets list)

Problem statement/pain point: Table view = Available asset list in main panel, we can see “NAME”, “OWNER”, “TAGS”, “TYPE”, “DATE ADDED” as items in this asset list. We can not see other information about detail of the assets(such as description) ...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release

Planning Analytics Workspace object sizes

Problem Description There is currently a maximum size to the content the PAW backup.ps1 script can manage. If the PAW container databases exceed this maximum size, then the backup.ps1 script fails. Currently there does not seem to be a way to de...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Provide alerts at least 1 month prior to having certificates expire.

CP4D and its components have lots of certificates which expire. These certifications expire without notification and causes downtime for clients which then adds a ripple effect throughout the client, IBM account team, support and multiple escalati...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Delivered

Chart Data Field Options to include Months

It would be useful to display some data in charts by Months, based off a selected date field on the object. In our example, we want to display Reg Changes by Status grouped by effective date. So we create a filter on the Reg Change to only pull In...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Dashboard drill though changes

When I attempt to connect a drill through report to a dashboard, my only choices to pass to the drill through report are values in the dashboard. My drill through report has a prompt for Current, Official Report or Effective date, I would like to ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

RDS Versioning

Hi, We have a requirement on RDS to track and manage the versions based on the following: - Every change to a value or code creates a new version of that reference dataset. - Effective start and end dates of the change - No deletion of previous ve...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1

Request for the ability to create custom event-based workflows, specifically triggered by a date field, within IBM Knowledge Catalog.

Current Challenges: The default workflow templates lack the flexibility to include nested conditions, making it challenging to automate complex processes effectively. Enhancement Request: We propose the addition of event-based workflow creation th...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Needs more information

A need for a differentiation between PARTITIONED and DATA PARTITIONED indexes to avoid DPSI misuses

Hello IBM Db2 development team, could you please pay attention to the following observation and idea for an improvement from one of our customers (Deutsche Bank AG): Background: In a world where IBM have been continuing to make the mainframe an at...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Modification of SCD Stage to allow custom date specification

SCD stage inserts new rows (type 2) with the effective date derived from runtime. This is sufficient for updated rows. We would like to specify a different date for initial records.
over 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration