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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.

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



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DCAT-AP exchange format for European customers

Hi, DCAT-AP is mandatory on european public customers is order to interchange catalog / asset information. https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-3/ . It's should be a huge accelerator to have it on IKC or at least on Knowledge accelerator, in order to ...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Enable the storage and retrieval of VIEW-Formats in native (legacy) and MDX-Views in Explorations in PAfE and PAW

In TM1 Server Explorer/Cube Viewer a user, modeler or administrator was capable of saving and retrieving individual view-formats per view, independent of the format assigned in the last dimension of the cube. This format was stored in the ID 375 o...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Industry Accelerator "SAP": Proactive Enhancement of IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) and watsonx.data for German SAP Customers and SAP BW Migrations

To maintain and grow IBM’s relevance in the SAP ecosystem—especially for German-speaking customers—we must proactively enhance our catalog and metadata solutions (IKC and watsonx.data) to deeply support German language, SAP-specific metadata, and ...
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

"smooth" way to delete an index by mark the index deprecated before drop

We would like to have an option to drop an index in a "smooth" way. package invalidation Idea is, that an index could be marked as "deprecated". This should have the effect, that this index is no longer chosen during BIND/REBIND for use in new c...
22 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

SCH Job Monitoring / Job History should display the lastest SDC ID(s) on which a failover retry was attempted

When an SCH job fails over and enters INACTIVE_RED, there is currently no way for end users to tell via the Job Monitoring UI or Job History UI which SDC ID(s) the job is currently attempting to be retried on if the job is failing due to a START_E...
22 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Implementation of permission settings on tabs in the Cognos Analytics dashboard

We have a customer requirement to make data available in a Cognos Analytics dashboard. However, there are different groups of users who should see different content. Therefore, it is necessary to use permissions to show or hide specific dashboard ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Drill-Through Mapping for Reports

Having the ability to see how a report is linked to/from other reports via drill-throughs, would be very useful see at a glance as opposed to manually following the drill-through tool.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Ability to select multiple Queries

You can only select one query at a time to copy/move etc. It would be better to be able to Ctrl+select or select+shift+select to select more than one.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Remove the Privileges tab in IBM's Unified Management Server for z/OS

We use RACF as our external security manager for Db2 authorizations. Using the “Privileges” tab shows the internal Db2 permissions. We have two issues with this functionality : 1) We consider this a security exposure. We do not allow anyone that s...
2 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

The basic commands should have an option to output machine processable format like JSON

Using automation tools like Ansible would benefit greatly if commands like db2cm, db2ls, db2 li node/db directory, db2 db/dbm cfg and so on would be able output in JSON format.
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review