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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Make name of object the default when exporting

Currently when exporting a DataStage object from Designer (with rightclick->Export), the tool will suggest the last used filename as "Export to file:" filename. In most cases (when exporting a single object) I want to name the DSX like the obje...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

greater/less than and between option for attributes filtering

In PAx and PA Workspace you can filter subsets based on attributes =, <>, contains, start/end with a selected value. But you can't select members by attributes with value greater/than a value or between two values. It can be done by mdx only...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DataStage supporting writing data to GCP GCS with CMEK

DataStage (11.7.1) Google Cloud Storage (GCS) connector failed to write data into GCS, not supporting Customer Managed Encryption Key (CMEK). We in HSBC use CMEK in all components in GCP. If this is enabled, we can use GCS with DataStage directly....
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Archival procedure for openpages-storage

openpages-storage folder contains physicals and it is growing. Pls help to build a archival procedure for this storage folder.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Future consideration

Commence workflow commentary

Introduce the ability to add a commentary when starting a workflow.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Report to validate Users per tenant in Planning Analytics (export users)

Currently in Planning Analytics we are not able to identify per tenant which users do we have assigned to each. We need to click on each user to validate if the user has access to an specific one.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for nested CASE, PARTITION BY clause in the GROUP BY clause

Support for nested CASE, PARTITION BY clause in the GROUP BY clause
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Schedule a report without Write capabilities

Is it possible to allow for users to schedule a report, even if Write access has not been specified to the reports in a folder - as the ability to schedule a report is important, but to also have security enabled so that a user cannot make any cha...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Invalid maximum timestamp value availble in DB2

In reference to this Db2 for z/OS idea (link), we need the same functionality for all platforms including Db2 for LUW. I quote the text from the other RFE: Currently there is documented maximum timestamp value available in DB2 as '9999-12-31-24.0...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Not under consideration

Limit domains that can be invited to PA

An account administrator is able to invite a user with an email address with any domain. This opens up the system for a new security threat as having an internal ID is no longer necessary. Prior to the usage of IBM ID, when being on security mode ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration