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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.

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Request for Provision of APIs for Automated Control of Resource Limits at Project Level in Cloud Pak for Data (on Prem) Monitoring

In IBM Cloud Pak for Data (on Prem), under Monitoring → Status summary → Projects → Set quotas, it is currently possible to manually define and enforce resource limits via the UI—such as vCPU and memory thresholds—at project level. To enable autom...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Submitted

add the ability to change a variables name within the expression editor

Within a query within a report the expression editor has a Name and Expression Definition fields. This allows you to enter a name for an expression and also the expression within a single window. Contrast that with the expression editor for a repo...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Granular grant-able authorization to allow explaining all statements stored in DSC

Currently there is a requirement to hold at least SQLADM authority to explain statements kept in DSC, and which were executed with a different SQLID. This is security exposure as for such basic action like statement explain it gives the user all t...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Support .TXT files for text extraction

In the overall messaging of watsonx.data Premium for unstructured data, we discuss ingestion of various unstructured documents, which includes word/PPT/PDF and .TXT files. From a unstructured data integration standpoint, .TXT files can be ingested...
3 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Add the option to set AvroReadSupport.READ_INT96_AS_FIXED Flag in supported stages(Amazon S3 Origin)

StreamSets Data Collector currently cannot read Parquet files containing INT96 timestamp columns, which were historically used by Apache Impala, older versions of Apache Spark, and Apache Hive for timestamp storage. When attempting to read these f...
13 days ago in StreamSets 0 Submitted

Ability to select target workbook for an Export from PAFE Viewer

Currently in PAFE, when a viewer window is opened, it is inherently tied to the active workbook when the viewer is opened. Thus, when converting the viewer to an Excel report type, the Excel report is created in that workbook. There should be addi...
13 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Convert lsfpollerd, licpollerd, and advocate to system managed service with Restart set to always

SysV init.d scripts are rather old, and do not support the monitoring and restart capabilities in systemd. So, convert these init.d scripts to systemd support and add the Restart option so that admins are comfortable knowing that the operating sys...
13 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

FTM MER BAH

FTM MER should allow the entry and repair of the BAH fields. I understand in the early days MX messages most messages did not have A BAH block. However, since FINplus the BAH is critical to the message and FTM MER should support it.
13 days ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Submitted

Need UI feature through which the CP4D administrator can create and manage guaranteed resources pool(s) for high priority workload based on label selectors

CP4D customers (RBC in this case) have many users working on the platform to create various jobs, tasks and different types of AI/ML workload on daily basis. Some of these projects have higher priority and more strict timelines than others, wherea...
13 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

PostgreSQL should be supported with Cognos Audit DB Cleanup Console

As of Cognos Analytics v12.1.1, PostgreSQL is still not supported with Cognos Audit DB Cleanup Console. It is a supported datasource for Audit: PostgreSQL audit deployment and model - IBM Documentation
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted