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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    Add back support for IMS JDBC driver to Cognos Analytics 12

    We are a strong Z customer, and we bought IBM Cognos Analytics along with watsonx Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z) because we need to do reporting from our IMS databases.We don't want to buy buy another Connector application at the moment because of a...
    11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

    Allow an optional "Callback URL" in "Add Document" Discovery API request

    We, frequently, write services to poll Discovery for a document's status after we POST a document for ingestion. If, within the request body, we could include a callback URL for Discovery to asynchronously POST a completion message to, we could cu...
    over 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

    Update DB2 (DDF) to use a stronger Hash Algorithm in the DDF global authentication cache feature

    Presently, DB2 DDF is using MD5 Hashing in the DDF global authentication cache feature. This hashing cipher is long considered weak and guidance is that it should no longer be used. We ask IBM to consider a change to DB2 to up level this feature t...
    about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

    Provide capability to set DSSIZE for implicitly created LOB Auxiliary Tablespaces

    Currently an implicitly created LOB Auxiliary TS DSSIZE is set to 4G and does not adhere to the zparm IMPDSSIZE or the base TS DSSIZE. We would like the capability to influence the default DSSIZE for LOBs.This would also make it consistent with th...
    almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

    PAfE - Version updates

    PAW and PASS updated regularly by IBM and IBM guidelines are to ensure versions of Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel, Planning Analytics Workspace, Planning Analytics, and TM1 are in conformance with one another. The process of updating PAfE ...
    over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

    Financial Reporting Sign Formatting

    Financial data which is sourced from a General Ledger typically requires the reversal of the accounting sign for the majority of management and statutory reporting. For example, Income accounts are held as negative values in the Ledger however the...
    over 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

    ODBCOpen with Encyripted DB Password

    We need to push data from TM1 to Oracle database using ODBCOpen command. However this command requires database password to be captured in clear text. This is not acceptable by bank security policies. We need a solution to this problem with TM1.
    almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

    Add a validation check to Job Parameters edited using bulk edit mode

    This would avoid downstream errors when updating pipeline versions (see screenshot). I filed https://streamsets.atlassian.net/browse/DPM-24656
    4 months ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

    Missing Error Message, when no default runtime is present

    We now had two times the problem, that we didn't get a proper error message, if no default runtime on a project was set. We would like to have a clear error message "no default runtime set" to not waste days of searching and comunicating with the ...
    4 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

    Kerberos authentication support for Impala in Data Refinery

    Client's main data source is Kerberised Impala cluster. It is very important to have access to this data source from CPD. For now it looks like they can't use Watson (Data Refinery) and SPSS for their project.
    4 months ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio 0 Submitted

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