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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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Need improved combination logic for multiple DPR filter rules

Need a enhancement per case TS020373951. As suggested by Steven, the LMCO requirement here needs an expansion of the features of Data Protection Rules. The current attempt using AND requires that columns have both A and B, but the whole logic ther...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Allow users to choose the preferred output format in the Cognos Toolbar before the users need to choose the selections on the prompt page and run the report in OpenPages

Users need to wait until the report provides the results in the default format until they can choose the desired format in the Cognos toolbar in OpenPages. For the reports without the prompt pages users can select the format before running the rep...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 1 Under review

Ability to add select an email recipient based on the location / folder path for notifications sent via OOTB workflow

Currently, email notifications in the OOTB Workflow can only be designed to send to users based on the User/groups and whether as ‘Assignees’ or ‘Subscribers’ in a workflow stage. It cannot be designed/configured based on the location of the objec...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Under review

Enhancement Cognos Audit

We need to create Audit report for showing usage of reports ,Cognos - Dashboard ,Data Module ,Story and exploration .We need usage/audit data from Cognos Dashboard,Data Modules and all the new tools added in CA 11 to be updated in Audit database i...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Reads on Standby on DB2 BLU

Customer would like Reads on Standby when using HADR for Column-organized tables (BLU) . This way customer can split specifics workload between Primary and Standby. It's an old DB2_HADR_ROS restriction that should already be "fixed" in newer DB2 r...
about 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

#emea #csm #mea Integrate IBM Knowledge Catalog Governance into DataStage Flows

Issue: Currently, in IBM Cloud Pak for Data, data protection rules defined within Watson Knowledge Catalog are not directly applied to DataStage flows, even when governed assets from the catalog are used. This creates confusion and a sense that no...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 3 Future consideration

Db2 Unload from a Cursor

Enhance the Db2 UNLOAD utility to perform an unload from a declared cursor
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support for CREATE INDEX DEFER YES DEFINE NO would be very usefull for Spaces with a 'high' number of partitions to avoid timeouts on SYSTSTAB.

When using "CREATE INDEX DEFER YES DEFINE NO", "DEFINE NO" is ignored with SQLCODE 20122 and the VSAM Clusters are created anyway. Doing this for a partitioned index on a partitioned table with lots of partitions (400+) the runtime of CREATE INDEX...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Manta can support more datasource such as doris and clickhouse

We are a lot of customers that they are using dorisdb and clickhouse,They have a demand to organize their lineage. Such as Foxconn. We hope that in the future we can add clickhouse and Dorisdb to support datasource.
9 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Automating Watsonx.ai installation experience

Why It's Useful: Automating the installation process reduces barriers to entry and onboarding for non-IBMers, SMEs, and new developers. This simplifies the user experience, leading to a more accessible product. Additionally, automation can lower c...
11 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review