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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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Make it possible to have a backup directory other than /tmp

In some cases, /tmp is not large enough to hold RTM backups. We need an alternate path, in NFS even to store as the temporary backup location for the RTM database backup.
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Future consideration

Auto format of SQL statements before calling the various backend services like QWT etc.

Since the currently UMS ui SQL parser is not very reliable it would make more sense to always call the official Admin SQL formatter which is more mature/reliable rather than the UMS ui parser. This will ensure that the SQL is always valid before c...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Adding Job Steps - Favourites Option

When adding a Job Step to a Job, the user currently has the option of selecting from My Content or Team Content. When reports are buried deep down in a hierarchy of folders, this makes them hard to locate. Please add an option to select from Favou...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Export and import of workflow configurations for deployment process

We would like to test our workflow configurations before we move them to prod. Sometimes the configurations can be quite complex, especially if there are plenty of categories selected. Combined with e.g. terms and rules, we might have 60 lines in ...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Enhance the audit log rollover features in Cognos. This is hardcoded and rollover should be configurable

Everyone who administers Cognos Analytics or CA nodes would benefit from the functionality working as it had in the past (and as expected in general).
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Be able to launch a workflow from a calculation

It would be useful in situations where you want to start a workflow when specific conditions happen on your object. A user could make changes on a child object which in turn changes a calculated value on the parent. Once that change takes place a ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Format Attributes for Graph display of an element, colour (conditional) and fill

There needs to be new formatting attributes to control the way an element is displayed on a graph.For example1Format ColourIncome - Green;RedUsing the same approach as the current Format attribute the first item is a positive number, the second it...
over 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable Individual Storage Volume Configuration During Planning Analytics Workspace Updates on OpenShift

Currently, when updating Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) on OpenShift, the PA_KUBE_STORAGE_SIZE variable in the paw.env file applies uniformly to all storage volumes (MongoDB, Redis, etc.). This limitation creates issues when certain volumes ha...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Allow for Dynamic Cubes in the Cloud

Multiple customers have requested the capability to create/utilize Dynamic Cubes with Cognos Analytics on the Cloud.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sub Grouping in Custom metrics

Currently custom metric don't support sub grouping of metrics the way out of the box metrics support. For e.g in out of the box metrics, all rouge scores are grouped under one subgroup. Can similar capability be provided for custom metrics where u...
10 months ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted