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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Bring back Paste button on right-click menu

After we upgrade PA from 2.0 to 2.1, the users notice that the Paste button on right-click menu is missing. Although the Ctrl+V keyboard shortcut works, the business users prefer to use the Paste button on right-click menu since their left hand mi...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Needs more information

Preview for row generator in DataStage

Preview is not offered for row generator, but only for data connections. In the legacy Designer all source stages had a preview option. This is particularly important for a a row generator when you want to check if the generated content is like ex...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...
7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Submitted

Show next best actions on Watsonx Assistant after skill execution is done.

Currently the next best actions configured on skill only show up on WxO after the skill execution is done. This is not the case on WxA. The next best action feature helps you find skills to complete tasks that naturally follow the work currently b...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Ability to sort the calculations list based on the column headings

Currently admins are not able to sort / filter the list of calculations that have been configured. The behaviour required is the same as sorting a list of workflows
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Error message improvement when failing to convert tablespace to UTS PBG

Recently we are converting our old segmented and simple tablespaces to UTS PBG. When converting one of these tablespaces we got an abend and a DUMP showing reason code 00C90101. We opended a case (TS009249828) and analyzing the DUMP DB2 lab conclu...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Include interactive report runs in Past Activities Cognos Administration list

In Cognos Administration, the Past Activities list currently only shows previous report runs run in the background, while the Current Activities list has the option to show either Background activities or Interactive activities. As an administrato...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restrict users from scheduling reports during certain hours

Client would like the ability to limit what hours people can schedule items to run. For example they want to prevent people from scheduling anything between 8:00 am and 3:00 pm on a weekday. Currently no functionality to restrict schedule hours an...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Data Module - Restrict Table and Column Name Changes

When the Tables are imported into the Data Module Column Names with Characters such as underscore (_), dash (-), or slash (\) are replaced with the space character and the names are changed to Camel Case. Replacing Table and Column Names is not id...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Create View which saves under 'Views'

I would like to be able to have parity with Architect with regard to creating views and storing them under the 'views' section of the content tree. When you expand a cube in Planning Analytics Workspace, then right click 'views' in the content tre...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration