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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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Bulk move of object types and it's descendants

Current Situation:Currently there is no way we can perform bulk move of objects in the event of organizational changes OOB. Proposed Enhancement:We suggest to product to create an OOB functionality to perform bulk update and move of objects intuit...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Login in as function for supporting users

Would be nice to have a log in as function where you could choose a user and log into the system as they are set up. This would help troubleshooting access issues, data visibility, security etc. Having this functionality would allow us to resolve ...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Calculations on single measure (ie YTY/QTQ on rev measure) in Dashboard

Today in Cognos Analytics Dashboard we are unable to perform calculations on a single measure.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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.
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Planned for future release

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...
3 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Show icon while searching element upon enabling show icon property for a picklist/selector list in a websheet

We have noticed in PAW that if we enable show icon property for a picklist/selector list in a websheet, it only appears if we scroll or drill down, If we search an element it does not appear. Sometimes it is challenging for end users to identify l...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

UNLOAD Utility

The ability to UNLOAD a table (including using SQL) is required. Additionally, the ability to UNLOAD from an image COPY is required. We need the same type of capability that is available in Db2 for z/OS. We copy/migrate (via LOAD) data from one en...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

Create custom images for Spark Notebooks

Desjardins has a data scientist team and they would like to customize Spark images for various data scientist. Similar to what is documented here, but with Spark https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=environments-building-cust...
over 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 3 Future consideration

Restful API call needs to support array data types

Currently the RESTFUL API Db2 service does not support array data types as part of the call statement.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Cube designer supports Denodo Datasource

At this moment IBM does not support the Cognos Analytics clients like Framework Manager and Cube Designer in combination with Denodo, We are within a migration from Netezza (End of Life) to Db2/Denodo Denodo supports Cognos (So tells their website...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration