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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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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...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Functionality already exists

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...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 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...
3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Add Explain Support for Queries with DGTTs

When a query in a program uses a DGTT, there is no access path written to the PLAN_TABLE at bind time, and there is no way to see the potential access paths. There needs to be a way to see those access paths in Administration Foundation. Currently...
5 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Alerts for DelayProblem, SqlElapsedTimeProblem, and SqlError at the object level

We would like to see if it would be possible to get alerts at the object level for the event types DelayProblem, SqlElapsedTimeProblem, and SqlError. Right now, this is possible to do for getpage activity which is very helpful. A workaround we wou...
8 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enhance DBSW/DBRW formulae with Hierarchy Awareness Parameters

So that all existing Active Form reports can be reused easily and maintained. And they can coexist with Planning Analytics environment nicely.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Not under consideration

PAX user created Rollup in Set Editor

PAX - In Set editor, users would like the capability to create a 'rollup' (addition/ aggregation) that does not exist in the current dimension hierarchies. The new rollup would then be retained / remembered in the report. This functionality would ...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Improve Excel-import with the ability to adjust characteristics

During the Excel import frequently the data type of columns is identified incorrectly. It would be great if you are able to set the correct datatype of columns during the import of Excel/CSV. This creates issues when you try to update (refresh) an...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow Run SQL to handle host variables as Data Studio does

When executing a SQL query under DSM, there is no provision for host variables and an error results when you try to execute a query. A simple example such as: SELECT EMPNO, FIRSTNME, LASTNAME, WORKDEPT, HIREDATE, JOB, SEX, BIRTHDATE FROM SPEMP ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Ability for the end users to delete comments they added using the Add Comment feature

There is a functionally gap with the Add Comment feature. The users need the ability to delete their own comments. They use this feature during our budgeting process.
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration