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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Allow dimension attribute to appear as a hover-over message or popup text for an element

Allow selecting dimension's (especially measure dimension) text attribute or an alias to appear as a hover-over message or a pop-up text if populated. The element which has a popup text can have a bulb-like icon next to it, to indicate that elemen...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Customers would benefit if ZAI/Spark residual directory and temporary file cleanup process go after the directory specified in TMPDIR environment variable instead of arbitrarily going to $ZAIHOME/tmp directory.

Our installation ran into an issue with the temprary files created by ZAI filling up /tmp directory. All users of ZAI would benefit from this flexibility to specify our own location in TMPDIR environment variable for the cleanup process.
over 1 year ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add the capability to write timestamp in a parquet file in the new format of Proleptic Gregorian calendar through Azure Data Lake storage connector

We use Azure DataLake storage connector to generate Parquet files in Azure data lake. Then on the azure end, MS ADF is used to load the parquet files to Azure Synapse. If we enable the use of Staging in ADF Mapping Data Flow on the Azure end, the ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Add feature to FLV excel export to include field metadata (allowed values for each field)

When users use FLV to export fastmap template for desired objects, they would like the export to include a row(s) showing the field metadata (e.g. showing the field data type or the list of allowed values for enum fields, etc). This way, when they...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Support Oracle 21c as source, including support for TDE

We are an OEM partner of IBM, for IIDR. A prospect is interested in the combined solution. They currently run with Oracle 19c, and have plans to upgrade their Oracle to 21c by June 2022. They run with TDE on their Oracle.
almost 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Object Manager - Workflow Migration automation

Needing to update the XML files directly for environment values and variables when migrating from one environment to another can result in errors. Either due to missed updates, mistyping of values, or invalid changes being made and missed.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

Ability to mask URL field

At the moment, Rich Text Fields does not support embedding URL linking, so the only way to link to an external site is via the URL field. When this field is used, the full URL is exposed as a link to the front end user. Customer wishes to be able ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Customizing Security Rules Error Messages

When Security Rule triggers an error because user unable to complete a task, such as udpate object, the error produced is a hardcoded message. It not even customizeable in Application Text. Since Security Rules are very specific to the implementat...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

The client has requested urgent support for Oracle RDS on AWS.Openpages V7 does not support RDS file structure.

The client has requested urgent support for Oracle RDS on AWS.Openpages V7 does not support RDS file structure.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

v7.2 Creation Views to keep Detail View as an option

The default Creation View that comes with v7.2 is a straight copy of the full Detail View which is fine. But as soon as I create a new Creation View I don't get the option of using the original Detail View one. The only way to then add a full Deta...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Not under consideration

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