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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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CSV file support

One of our largest design patterns is to export data from a source system into a flat file (CSV, JSON, etc.). We use these flat files to populate our data warehouse ecosystem. Manta does not support CSV files, and this is a showstopper for us. Can...
19 days ago in Data Lineage 0 Submitted

Greater filtering for files

We are a SAS shop, and we are finding the connection mechanism cumbersome. We have numerous file folders where SAS scripts are stored but we would like to filter out some of the scripts or sub folders. The current connection type does not allow fo...
19 days ago in Data Lineage 0 Submitted

To export API custom metadata to Collibra since it's not supported yet in Manta

We tried Collibra Export for datasource that uses API for data transformation for which Data Lineage is generated in Manta using Open Manta/DirectLinks. Lineage is available in Manta as "API". We wanted to have the same structure for Collibra expo...
19 days ago in Data Lineage 0 Submitted

Make user ids in CP4D case sensitive

User ids are case sensitive in customer LDAP. Downstream integration of audit report requires matching CP4D ids with downstream reports that can be handled easily wihtout additional case conversion if CP4D allows mixed case and case ssensitive use...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

Keep the replication functionality in the 2.1 release

IBM support just notify us that replication and synchronization functionality that exist and has existed forever with TM1 is going to be deprecated for now and IBM does not have any new feature for replacement. We have been using this functionalit...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to select objects by package

Add the ability to add all the objects for a package instead of having to add each one. Current process is very inefficient.
2 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Under review

Parameter 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' in Db2 LUW similar to Db2 z/OS

in Db2 z/OS there is a 'PCTFREE FOR UPDATE' parameter. We will need a similar parameter for Db2 LUW. Background: Our datawarehouse application 'IDH' uses many Bi-Temporal tables. An update of any row in the source system will lead to the logical t...
8 months ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Under review

Bring MATLAB interface back for CPLEX

Please bring back the MATLAB interface for CPLEX. We rely heavily on this feature since toolboxes we use are Matlab exclusive.
over 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 32 Future consideration

High Contrast Option in PAW for Color Blind Users - Accessibility Enhancement

I have a user who is struggling with differentiating rows in a cube view and reporting in PAW. The current white/grey coloring of every other row does not work for the user with color blindness, when trying to differentiate rows in a report over m...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration
138 VOTE

Need way to schedule TM1 Server Restart

Need the ability to schedule a restart of the TM1 server.Right now it is completely a manual process which requires a person to work after hours to perform this action. We need some way that a TI process or Command Center or the PAA to have a time...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Future consideration