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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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#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

Render Variable to show/hide columns not working in CSV and Excel Data formats

We have a prompt page (Check Box prompt ) to select/unselect columns to show/hide in the list report. We are using Boolean variable accordingly to show/hide the columns based on the prompt[t selection. We have around 80 columns in the choices of t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 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...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Capture DB segment replace calls which actual data is not updated.

Our client is currently using Dprop(IMS DataPropagater for z/OS) for creating Data Warehouse. Dprop captures replace calls and writes to PRDS(Propagation Request Data Set) even when DB segment was not actually updated. Client’s Dprop application p...
over 3 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Copy or Move sheets from one PAW book to another

There is no option to copy or move a sheet from one PAW book to another. While this can be achieved by pinning every object on the sheet, this is time-consuming. This is particularly useful for a client with several applications designed for diffe...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Future consideration

Db2 client authentication with certificates like SSH (public/private) keys

Provide the possibility to authenticate with public/private certificates for the current client user like SSH does
over 7 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration