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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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The timestamp function does not yet fully support use across multiple global locations with different time zones

For example, the timestamp is set for Tokyo time and for US end users, when they sign-off on something using the workflow. If they are signing off on a test using the action button in the workflow at 12:00 noon, it will show a date of the next day...
3 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Submitted

Improvements to the Jobs dashboard, including grouping by folder in a single click show the Jobs execution information

We are entering a migration from DataStage 11.7 to DataStage Anywhere, control plane in IBM Cloud and Data Place in OCI/On Premise instances. Improvements to the Jobs dashboard, including grouping by folder in a single click show the Jobs executio...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Show Catalog Last Update Date at Top Level

Currently, when viewing catalogs, the date displayed at the top level corresponds to the creation date. We propose displaying the last update date instead. This would allow users to immediately see when the catalog was last modified, improving vis...
5 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Submitted

Layout Component Reference dialogue box improvement

Layout Component References are an amazing feature - they allow us to build reports from a standard library of components ensuring user interface consistency and code reuse across hundreds of reports. They reduce report build times and reduce main...
24 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted
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Waterfall chart or Step Chart

Waterfall charts or step charts are a common requirement for Financial Reporting. In Excel the approach is to use transparent colours in a stacked bar chart to build the height required to just show the differences). In the Explorer view a Waterfa...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered

UI Modifications: Job details visible on engine details page and also on logs. Data collector details visible on Job instance page.

The customer wanted following modifications on the Platform UI:1. On the engine details page, under running pipelines section, currently only the pipeline details are shown in UI, such as pipeline name, type, status, last reported, etc. The custom...
2 months ago in StreamSets 1 Under review

Global Search Latency Monitoring Dashboard

We need a dashboard to show how quickly changes in the catalog get updated in the global search. This will help us see if the search is working correctly and not falling behind. Right now, we can't see if our search is up-to-date. When we make a c...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review
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Waterfall chart or Step Chart

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Waterfall charts or step charts are a common requirement for Financial Reporting. In Excel the approach is to use transparent colors in a stacked bar chart to build the height required to just show the differences). In the Explorer view a Waterfal...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Have Db2 for z/OS issue a message at Db2 subsystem restart if a DSNZPARM or DSNHDECP member has been changed.

Configuration management is a major focus of our auditors and compliance officers. We have to be able to show that we have a standard build and that any changes from the standard configuration would be closely governed via change control. The focu...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve Stored Procedures features

We are trying to increase the usage of SP in our system environment. Migrating business code from 4GL to the database.But this process becomes very painful for our developers since the support for SPL is limited. Mainly the inexistence of a native...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration