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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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Ability to disable job requeuing in google resource connector when jobs exit with TERM_RC_RECLAIM

We have jobs that should not be requeued after partially running due to corrupting the job output data. We would like to have a queue level parameter to disable requeuing of jobs that exit for TERM_RC_RECLAIM. To be consistent with other features,...
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Cloud Bursting 1 Future consideration

Colour consistency should be definable across all objects, not just within a single dashboard. And we should have attributes on members, not just data items.

Colour consistency is a great feature, ensuring that within a single dashboard all visualisations will show a member with the same colour. But what about if you have a suite of dashboards? What about if you have reports? A user would want the same...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Enable client to automate restart of PA on Cloud

Enable client to automate restart of PA on Cloud
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Future consideration

Improved functionality for tablespace fast pre-allocation

My customer is experiencing huge performance problems due to Tablespace Pre-allocation (DB2_USE_FAST_PREALLOCATION).At this time, IOCP Timeout occurs in Db2 and many tossbuffers occur in GPFS.This customer has been struggling with this problem for...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 6 Future consideration

TM1 Data Snapshot functionality - Copy rule to values in a TM1 cube

The Bedrock data copy TI process is the most basic requirement for a in memory solution. The highest priority would be to achieve this outcome. The following additional requirements would be nice to have on top of the basic requirement: 1. The abi...
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Advanced Formatting Options Applied in Dashboards, Explorations, and Stories

In Data Modules you can format an item using advanced options such as patterns etc. I want to be able to apply patterns on dates in particular. It works fine in reporting but does not appear the same way in my dashboard. Per the documentation it s...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Export global search list result

Using the Global Search function on the homepage, we would like to be able to export the data list result. In fact, actually is not possible to extract and download the result list.
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Pushing CDC Logs to Monitoring Tools such as Observe/Splunk automatically

In current modern world, It would be good if CDC product is capable to push the logs (Capture, Apply, Trace) automatically to Monitoring Tools such as Observe/Splunk which will help to setup alerts, dashboards, etc., to closely monitor the CDC per...
12 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 6 Future consideration

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...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Automatic Table Partition Creation and Purging Based on Date Expressions

I propose the addition of a native feature in Db2 LUW for automatic table partition management based on a date or timestamp column. Specifically: Automatic Partition Creation: Allow users to define partitioning expressions (e.g., daily, monthly, y...
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Future consideration