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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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Spark job to be able to access, read and write on external database without the credentials being exposed anywhere (instance, logs, job metadata, etc…)

We want to create a job on a Spark instance of the Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark that runs a Spark application reading from and writing to an Exasol database. To enable database access, we need to pass our user credentials into the job....
about 1 month ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Ability to paste '-' characters as 0.

0 values formatted as a '-' in Excel cannot be pasted into Planning Analytics. This causes a spreading error. Users often format 0 values as a '-'. It would be helpful if Planning Analytics could interpret '-' as a 0 on paste.
28 days ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Ability to add select an email recipient based on the location / folder path for notifications sent via OOTB workflow

Currently, email notifications in the OOTB Workflow can only be designed to send to users based on the User/groups and whether as ‘Assignees’ or ‘Subscribers’ in a workflow stage. It cannot be designed/configured based on the location of the objec...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Under review

FastMap to validate dependent picklists and hidden enum values

We'd like the ability to make FastMap imports do the following two extra validations:1) check that dependent picklist values match their controlling field values2) check that enum values are not currently listed as hidden values
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Not under consideration

Add a Trace Security in order to understand how a right is evaluated by the engine

As for business rules, PAL/TM1, security could be a mix of data and/or rules on the system security objects. For business rules, we can use the "trace calculations" which is really a great feature. For security, we can only use... our brain so a "...
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 3 Not under consideration

concerns password management policy, specifically increasing the level of their complexity

the current version of the product lacks the following two functionalities that significantly increase the level of security and complexity of passwords, namely: blocking the possibility of the same characters appearing consecutively in the passwo...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 4 Under review

Increased SSO Connection Monitoring

In our OpenPages instance we recently had three documented short but total outages, lasting for a few minutes each. In all of them, the Support team noticed the logs indicating SSO errors, but we made sure, in all occurrences, that we did not have...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Functionality already exists

MDE Job is failed with error "Deployment not found with given id"

We found the issue related to the Spark/MDE blocker issue. MDE job triggered a spark-runtime deployment first The spark-runtime deployment then triggered corresponding spark-master/worker pods If the 1st spark-master/worker pod does not come up wi...
over 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 0 Under review

Loss Entry Application enable association capabilities to other parent GRC objects

When entering a loss via the Loss Entry Application the user is currently unable to associate the loss to any other GRC objects outside of the business entity. The request is to enable the user the ability to see other parent GRC objects and assoc...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Under review

Ability to resize the columns across the job page, as well as any other columns in order to see text that is too long

Column Resizing so that we can see the full line of text and not have it cut off if the text is too long. The ability to resize would help for copying and pasting pieces of the string or the entire string itself.
10 months ago in Analytics Engine 1 Submitted