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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    Relative time reports different than dashboard

    If you create a report with Relative time QTD Grouped and YTD Grouped on it, they will show as individual columns on a crosstab. If you try and add both to dashboard, they just nest and don't show the correct results. You can put one or the other ...
    over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

    Issue command DISPLAY DB CLAIMERS on a LOAD SHRLEVEL NONE when DRAIN fails in UTILINIT phas

    We faced situations in which LOAD SHRLEVEL NONE jobs abends with S04E and Reason Code 00C200EC during UTILINIT phase. When this abends occurs, LOAD was unable to DRAIN all the claimers, once it is SHRLEVEL NONE, before beggining LOAD data into tab...
    over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Restricting access to Db2s within a single UMS install (multitenancy)

    We have multiple customers on the same LPAR with separate DB2 subsystems and they should not see other customer systems when using UMS/Admin Foundations/IDAA Admin Services/DevOps etc.
    about 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 2

    Allow custom hardware specifications for Online Deployments such as for a Shiny app

    We have users that have a need for different hardware configurations when deploying a RShiny application in their deployment space. They need high amount of memory but only need 2 cpu. We dont want them to deploy the application with a high amount...
    almost 4 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 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

    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

    Request to enable the clearance of asymmetric MDX views when data processing.

    Asymmetric MDX represent the general case of a data set in PA, an Asymmetric view is typically delivered with and MDX filter. The ViewZeroOut function currently does not support the clearance of MDX views that contain a filter statement. The lack ...
    almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

    Identify in projects deleted platform connections with a mark or warning.

    Platform connections can be deleted and the projects using them are not aware of it till the time of using the connection. Concers: 1. The error will occur at runtime (scheduled or on demand jobs) 2. It can be difficult to track if the deleted pla...
    over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under 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

    Improve ALTER TABLE ROTATE PARTITION

    Currently ALTER TABLE ROTATE PARTITION only allows the ENDING value to be a constant, minvalue, or maxvalue. I would suggest adding the ability to generate DATES or TIMESTAMPS so that additional programming is not necessary to generate the ALTER s...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

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