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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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Custom widgets on BAI for saving column sorting

Despite being able to select the order of the columns for a report, this sorting is not saved and the customers need to redo it every time they need to check the report. Having a way to save this sorting would help the customers to just consume th...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service 0 Submitted

Create an option to configure the user timezone

BAI uses the customer device timezone. However, when working integrated with BAW it seems that this timezone configuration is lost on BAI, therefore having a way to set this on the product end would benefit customers that can't change their device...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service 0 Submitted

Having more parameters in API calls

It would be beneficial to be able to pass more parameters during an API call (server/execute, for example). Currently, we can use an overrides file to modify a DBalias or the path to an XF file, for instance, in the case of a data extraction reque...
13 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

SCIM 2.0 support for User and Group management on CP4BA SaaS offering

Most customers have established processes for requesting user access to specific LDAP (Active Directory or other) groups. Those groups are often leveraged to control permissions in BAW process or case solutions. Unfortunately, in CP4BA SaaS offeri...

Add a mechanism for live log viewing

I've opened case number TS020451332 and reported that I do not see the Live Log Viewer option from the IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service - Development environment. The support team member indicated that in our we have the "Busines...
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service 0 Submitted

Requesting Java SE 9 or higher with 64 arch support for IBM Optim 11.7

We are currently using Oracle provided JRE 1.8 32 bit in all of our Optim servers in Linux/Windows. Since Oracle as made all Java/JRE need to have license which needs us to pay license cost for the same. Hence our organization adopted openjdk prov...
6 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Submitted

Enable an option to use UTF-8 as the default encoded for mail services

As today, BAW allow the customer to work on a Java file to define the email structure. However, we can't easily define that UTF-8 is the default encoding for the texts. From my experience with this customer, even if you define it on the html struc...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Business Automation as a Service 1 Submitted

OPTIM/HPU INTERFACE CHANGE TO ALLOW USE OF MULTIPLE IMAGE-COPY DATASETS

This is an enhancement request for OPTIM TDM for z/OS (FMID HAEYB70). OPTIM TDM/DP currently allows users to inform only one image-copy dataset (taken in another DB2 subsystem) in the process of extracting and converting data. In our environment w...
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Optim not able to see these nested tables and the parent table

The nested tables are going to be in the same realm as complex nested view where Optim currently is not robust enough to access the correct meta data for them.
7 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Postgresql 16 support

We'd like an Optim release compatible with Postgresql 16 datasources for TDM and DP.
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted