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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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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 ...
1 day ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 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...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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...
2 days ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 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....
3 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling Submitted

The function CubeRuleAppend() misses a few logical parts

I observe the following 2 situations for the function CubeRuleAppend. - When I want to add a rule to a cube, but there is not yet a rules file, PA will create the rules file. This can be done with the function CubeRuleAppend. However, when I want ...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

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...
19 days ago in Connectivity Submitted

Option to download more than one file at a time in Planning Analytics as a Service File Manager

Currently in Planning Analytics as a Service in the File Manager there is no option to download more than one file at once. This makes a particular process of ours cumbersome as we generate a large number of files to import into our ERP as part of...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Activity log should also show the users role in addition to their name

For audit purposes the activity log should show what was the role of the person when they published (or performed any other registered activity). It is possible they could have several roles which all would allow them to perform the said action, a...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review

Activity log should retain persons name (and ID) even after that persons has left the company

Activity log is used for audit purposes. At the moment if a user has left the company, then activity log will show "deactivated user" instead of the name. This breaks the audit trail. While improving this you should also add unique identifier for ...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog Under review

Runtime Logging Export for DataStage

We understand that there currently a way to export runtime logs to an external service(ADLSg2) post the run of a DataStage flow/pipeline. However, we are looking for a way to export these logs during the run of a DataStage flow/pipeline.
about 18 hours ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage Submitted