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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.

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.

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Visually distinguish lineage added by scanners vs other means

Lineage can be added to Manta via two broad methods: 1. Via the built in scanners 2. Via API's Manta exposes (Open Manta Desinger, Open Lineage, Open Manta Extentions) There is a need to distingush between the two because: 1. It allows us to under...
about 7 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Support lineage scanning on DB2 i 7x (iSeries)

Our organization supports several applications where the data is stored in Db2 iSeries. If Manta were to be able to catalog this database, then it would be easier to add lineage over these database tables using Open Manta or Open Lineage.
about 7 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Improve SMF data for DVM Outbound

Currently DVM Outbound provides very limited SMF data. We would like to see details similar to that captured for DVM Inbound, specifically raw bytes transferred. Also, for CICS processes it currently only captures the CICS region where the call to...
about 9 hours ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Submitted

Automatically update the AD search user credentials in the C&DS security provider configuration when the service account password is rotated, via a CLI or script on the Linux server

Hi there, we are attempting to migrate all our AD accounts to use a certain software where it could manage the password for us. This will ensure we change our password yearly for all our AD accounts and also do it automatically for us when the tim...
about 11 hours ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

Timestamp on output file name should show same as server timestamp as it currently show UTC.

When user downloaded scheduled report, Incorrect timestamp shows (GMT timestamp) on saved report name. This is leading to confusion for end users as these reports are used for their timely analysis.
about 11 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Application sorting options in PAW

Applications in PAW on the Home Page are sorted by last date/time updated. It would be helpful to have different sort options available such as alphabetic or grouped with an index number.
about 13 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

PAW TI editor variable type assignment

When creating a TI process with many variables it would be helpful to be able to assign the variable type against many variables at once, instead of having to select every variable individually. This functionality was available in prior versions o...
about 13 hours ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

playstationやxboxでもWindowsの操作が出きる仕組み。書類も作れてしまう。

ゲームマシンでWindows
about 13 hours ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Informational reconcilation rule

In IBM Controller shall be enhanced with a capability that allows non‑blocking plausibility checks to be executed as part of the consolidation workflow, including all stages of the reconciliation process. These checks are designed to identify unus...
about 19 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Controller Web import specifications must allow the reuse of a column for different field definitions to avoid customers having to produce duplicate columns

In the version 11.1.1100.47 and forwards it is not possible for in import specification created in Controller Web, to re-use a column in a file 2 or more times for a field in the import spec. This was possible in previous versions. The fact that t...
about 21 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted