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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    Enable Native HTTP/REST API Calls from Db2 LUW SQL

    Business Scenario and Problem Banco do Brasil is accelerating the adoption of hybrid cloud architectures based on IBM Db2 for z/OS, IBM Db2 LUW, Db2 Data Gate, OpenShift, and Cloud Pak for Data. As part of this modernization strategy, business app...
    6 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 0 Submitted

    Include gallery images in Lifecycle Management

    Now that it is possible to load images into a gallery that can then be used in PAW workbooks an additional complexity has been introduced. Currently these images are not automatically included in a Lifecycle Management deployment even if the image...
    about 7 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

    Toggle data entry capability on a workbook exploration

    Exploration views in PAW are editable. If a nodal (leaf) level cell is visible any user (other than a consumer) is able to edit the values. Also, if spreading is enabled, the user can even enter data if at a consolidated level. To protect against ...
    about 8 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    Dynamic process completion messages in PAW Workbooks

    In a TI process it is possible to dynamically display a message on completion of a process using ItemReject and ProcessExitWithMessage. However, this only seems to work in Workbench. If you run the process from a Workbook the message isn't display...
    about 8 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    Single cell visualisation parameter "enable editable cell" default to false

    On a single cell visualisation in a PAW workbook there are settings for Enable Editable Cell and Allow Consolidation Type In. By default these are set to true which is dangerous as it's too easy to create something were a user can change data that...
    about 7 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    Use an image as an action button.

    In PAW workbooks there are default icon widgets that can be added. However these aren't very useful. In practice the only way to make these useful is to drop an action button on top of the icon, then make the action button invisible, then set the ...
    about 9 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    Provide a built-in notification or alerting mechanism to warn administrators before an API key expires.

    Currently in PA aaS the API Keys have an expiry date of 365 days. The Expiry Date column is now added to the interface. We want to receive a notification before the API Key expires.
    about 12 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    Prevent Double Counting for Multi Selection List Using the Aggregate Option in Advanced Synchronization

    When using a Multi Selection List with the Aggregate option in Advanced Synchronization, users can select both a higher-level consolidation and a member that already rolls up into that consolidation. This causes the member to be included twice in ...
    2 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    Enable IS NOT NULL index fragment elimination in IDS14

    We were advised in TS021736198 "Partial index query plan change" to exclude NULL values from being indexed by having them in the REMAINDER partition with INDEX OFF. That fixed query plans on other values, and nested loop joins worked again, but we...
    6 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    An Analogue-Evidence Standard for Volcanic Cooling Claims about Stratospheric Aerosol Injection

    PROBLEM: The Pinatubo cooling figure is quoted as if a single eruption proved a controllable technology, although the eruption differed from any controlled injection in scale, composition, duration, and side effects. SOLUTION: A watsonx.governance...
    about 1 hour ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted

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