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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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Adding support in Q Apply for Db2 data lake target tables and supporting CCD tables in Db2 Data Lake

Data lakes have become an indispensable part of today's database landscape, particularly they avoid vendor lock-in; key concepts here include open data and open table formats. One challenge in managing data lake tables in a Db2 is detecting change...

Ability to Modify Existing Component Configurations in watsonx.data Infrastructure Manager

In the watsonx.data Infrastructure Manager, there is currently no option to modify a component's configuration after it has been added. For example, when adding an HDFS storage component, several files must be uploaded to configure Kerberos authen...
about 18 hours ago in watsonx.data Submitted

SecurityScoreCard connector enhancement

We request an enhancement to the OpenPages SecurityScorecard integration to support native calls to the SecurityScorecard all-companies REST API, instead of requiring the current portfolio-based retrieval model. IBM documentation currently states ...
4 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API Submitted

Temporary Session Token for Generic S3 Connectio

Customers who are using S3 Buckets behind their firewall and using their own storage still require similar Temporary Credentials as the Amazon S3 connector. This would include the following Credential fields: accessKeyId: "YOUR_TEMP_ACCESS_KEY", s...
about 16 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity Submitted

Add MDX support for Single Cell Widget

Currently we are working on a dashboard in PAW and use CubeViews and SingleCell widgets to show data. In Cube Views we are able to dynamicely change the view depending on selected dimension element from a selector widget, using mdx to retrieve att...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Simplify DB2REMOTE log archive path name

When configuring LOGARCHMETH1|2 for a DB2REMOTE Db2 always appends two forward slashes "//" to end of the path even though specifying the slashes isn't required. This makes it more difficult to automate Db2 configuration because while it's possibl...
1 day ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise Under review

Implement Oracle Connection Manager in default connector

Oracle Connection Manager is a widely implemented and popular enterprise feature that adds a proxy layer before Oracle databases, exposing services such as session multiplexing, access control, and protocol conversion. Cloud Pak for Data should al...
22 days ago in Connectivity Submitted

Interactive Viewer should work when data containers are referenced using Layout Component References

Layout Component References allow you to reuse content from one report within another. This is a great feature allowing you to have a basic library of objects and reuse them across multiple reports. In an enterprise solution this allows you to eas...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Add Configurable Recall-to-Forward Delay for Multi-Cluster Scheduling

In a Multi-Cluster environment, once a job is forwarded to a remote cluster, it effectively remains there until it is scheduled or completed. As a result, the submission cluster may later have available resources that the job is unable to utilize....
6 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Submitted

Filter by partition number and partioning key together in LAT

The scenario which I am working on is to retrieve a LOB which was created and deleted the same day, which means it doesn't have any entry in any of the backups. I am using OBJECT FILTERS-ADVANCED for giving table name, column name(Partitioning key...
5 days ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS Submitted