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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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PAfE DIMNM performance improvement

Perspectives models are unusable in PAfE due to poor performance of DIMNM function as it is currently implemented: http://server:port/api/v1/Dimensions%28%27dimension%27%29/DefaultHierarchy/Members?$filter=Element/Index%20eq%20201 - 12.36secs My p...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Have PAW support authentication through multiple CAM instances

In Cognos Analytics you can install separate gateways pointing to separate namespaces (CAM instances) - but still the same Cognos installation/environment. This option is not available with Planning Analytics Workspace - PAW can connect to only on...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to Schedule calculations

Scheduling calculations in combination with auto advance feature would open doors for a plethora of use cases.
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Operating system support for RHEL on IBM LinuxOne

Customer having Db2 on zLinux systems needs datalakehouse functionality on zLinux. Reasons why on zLinux : spare capacity, zLinux SLA,SLO, high cost of Fusion system.
7 months ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Drive Explorer needs to be able to unzip 7zip files

Our backups for Planning Analytics are created using 7zip, however we are currently unable to unzip these from within Drive Explorer. So with the decommissioning of Remote Access to the server, we would have to download these files, unzip them, th...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Ability to disable or customize stemming

Watson Discovery uses stemming to identify valid matches. Based on our experience it appears that stemming is applied in both Natural Language Queries and also Discovery Language Queries. It seems to also enforced in phrase searching. This is usef...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 13 Not under consideration

Provide a documented and supported procedure to generate ddl (db2look as SP - like db2lk_generate_ddl)

db2lk_generate_ddl is a stored procedure that provides functionality to generate DDL via SQL (similar to db2look which is a tool as db2llok cannot be executed througha SQL client tool. This function already exists but is not documented and I am no...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

Enable/disable data preview at connection level

In CP4D platform connection level there must be a setting to enable/disable data preview. Disabling data preview at connection level will be global and block data preview at any component, except Data Stage, of CP4D and any object (table, view, SQ...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Contional Formatting in Vizualisations in Dashboarding

We would like the ability to conditionally format visualisations in dashboarding. For example, to apply RAG to a bar based on a specific criteria. Or to highlight something in red if a specific criteria is met etc.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Expose TM1 Server logs in PAW Modeling Workbench for OperationsAdmin Group

We have a operations group which requires the ability to see if certain scheduled jobs have been run or have completed without error, and currently do not have the capability to do this via the existing controls/groups within the PAW Modeling work...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release