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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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The back button on the new asset screen is inactive and cannot return to the previous screen.

IBM knowledge catalog (SaaS) -> project -> (My project) -> [asset] tab -> [New asset] button ->[New asset] screen -> [Connection] tile The back button is innactive. To cancel and return to the previous screen, you must switch to ...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace: Maps more granularity

The Maps visualization only supports values down to 'Provinces' level. (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=svm-provinces) Request for more granularity of detail in maps. For Australia, would like plot against the maps down ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide High Availability Solution

If you currently have QCapture tasks executing on an LPAR and the LPAR or Db2 member on the LPAR crashes, there will be an outage and latency. In an environment where we are executing an n-way Db2 Datasharing group replicating to a highly availabl...
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

enable to fabricate data for tables with circular dependency.

Currently IBM Optim TDF tool doesn't support tables with circular dependency. it doesn't even accept the tables with circular dependency to add into TDF project. We would like IBM to enable TDF to generate data for tables with circular dependency.
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Fabrication 1 Future consideration

Postgres TEXT data type to VARCHAR at Optim level

Optim version = V11.7.0.1 DB alias = PostgreSQL 11.8 Optim is extracting TEXT data type from postgres database as a LOB data, so unable to proceed with the masking on LOB columns. But even if we defined as TEXT data type at database level, the dat...
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 4 Planned for future release

Ability to manage several 3rd-party app connection/account to switch as I run the skills based on the role I have

For example to change the "reply-to" or "from" account as I send emails on behalf of my team or need to manage several businesses with different email accounts
over 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Not under consideration

"reinitialization" of HADR if takeover is not possible and standby being ROS

Hi, We recently faced an issue in one of the tablespace in our database on our standby auxiliary database. Our reporting application was connected to this standby database. PMR checked and they suggested that there are only two possibilities which...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Linking JN into a CA environment even with non-continuous protocol types.

Signal Iduna (German Insurance company) obtains their Cognos Analytics (on prem) out of an IBM Cloud Pak for Data license, which contains Cognos Analytics. In the Cloud Pak for Data 4.5.x bundle, CA 11.2.2 is the included version, which is current...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

[Copy] Actifio (VDP) AGM Manager UI does not display appropriate message when Snapshot pool is full

During the Backup restore process, when allocated Snapshot pool is full and an internal error gets generated, UI is not getting this message propagated to the user who is executing the restore task. User is expecting proper logging message or a UI...
about 3 years ago in Optim 0 Future consideration

Find special characters in WKC Catalog search

It has been found that the WKC Catalog search does not properly handle special characters (underscore specifically). The response to the IBM Support Case is that this is a limitation of the "light weight" search feature used, based on Lucene and i...
over 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Future consideration