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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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Alternative cpadmin login button

Problem: We want to get rid of the login screen and only have saml-login in place. This means useres will automatically get redirected to the cp4d landing page. I have to do this with an oc command in the openshift terminal. If I now need to login...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Functionality already exists

Double-Clicking on cube should open the default view, not the first private view

We set default views in our cubes for a reason, as they are the view we want to see the majority of the times when we open the cube. The issue with Planning Analytics for Excel is that double clicking the cube is opening the first private view sav...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Statistical Formulas / Calculations

Hello - We are running Cognos on Windows Server 2012 and MS-SQL Server 2012 and we have come upon the need to utilize a specific statistical functions in Cognos (11.0.8) but do not see it available. Is there any way to access this function or to e...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

An environmental variable that sets the database to use "Enforced" as a default for constraints.

For some shops, constraints are always created as "Enforced". This used to be the default behavior, but the default behavior was changed to "Not Enforced" in Db2 V11.Creating an environmental variable would allow the teams to choose the default be...
about 2 years ago in Db2 2 Functionality already exists

Add functionality to do percent of total in a crosstab when using a relational dB.

Currently this can only be done using a dimensional database. This means that this needs to be calculated in the query and then added to the crosstab.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Datastage Super Operator should have Run Now + Stop ability parameterised

In our production Datastage 11.5 environment we submit all of our jobs by using the command line from Linux scripts so that should only be submitted via an external scheduled job. This gives a degree of control over accidental updates to the produ...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 3 Functionality already exists

Unlimited field length for MDM

Client has MDM and EPIC. They have already extended the field length once but changes in EPIC mean they are sending fields with more characters than MDM supports so they get truncated. The request is to allow for unlimited field length in MDM. The...
almost 6 years ago in Master Data Management 6 Functionality already exists

For drop downs: Dependent values should be automatically removed when person unticks the related drop-down value form another field

This would benefit all the users who are using multiselect drop-down lists, which include additional dependent fields. This would significantly improve the data quality. This is especially needed for the financial fields, however useful for other ...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Functionality already exists

Be able to select or hide visualizations from the shared link

If I want to share my notebook, it will include all the visualizations, including intermediary ones like printing out my panda cells before the final result. This means I have to go back and "clean up" all the charts that I don't want to show (usu...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Functionality already exists

ODBC link to progress

Our finance system uses a progress database. I have been told that this cannot be linked to TM1/PAW. This means we have to use spreadsheets to get data from the finance system into PAW.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists