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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Hand-crafted MDX should retain formatting like line breaks and indents

When writing multi-line MDX, the formatting is crucial to being able to read the code, debug and make updates at a later stage. Saving the MDX without formatting means that the next time it is opened, you need to revisit the code, add in the forma...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Allow Admin user to Preview different role/user access

Currently changing profiles as an admin user to different role-based profiles provides some indication that group membership, roles & profiles are working as designed. However, they also allow visibility to objects that the profile wouldn't se...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

performance improvement for specific replication instance

Need improve deleting synchronization performance for big table with wide unique key column: We see latency keep increasing to 2 hours when batch deleting happen on big table which has ~1 billion rows and unique key includes 11 columns. More detai...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

Automatic migration of EXPLAIN tables in db2 LUW

Dear Team, We have seen whenever we migrate to higher version of db2 luw, the explain tables are not automatically migrated. We need to manually drop and recreate the explain tables to avoid errors like SQL0206N, SQL0220N, SQL1184N. As db2 modific...
3 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

DB2 database backup on Google cloud storage

We can utilize Google cloud storage directly for the database backups.
17 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 1 Submitted

rate limiting to avoid excess password attempt

This vulnerability was discovered by attempting numerous incorrect passwords for a backup, followed by the correct one, and observing that authentication succeeded without any delay or lockout.There are password-protected backups available to user...
17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

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...
17 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...
17 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...
17 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...
17 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted