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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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Unload to file should have option that prevents over writing of an existing file

A customer writes some SQL that captures the pre-data to an unload file and then does the updates/deletes etc. If the SQL is successful and inadvertently run again the initial pre-data will be lost.
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future consideration

Ability to modify/remove 'Quick reference' from 11.0.8 home screen

With the the 11.0.8 interface, need to capability to modify (preferred) or to remove the 'quick reference' menu. As delivered it has links to external sites.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

"No data" mode for Dashboard & Exploration

Upon drag and drop a data item, data starts to load and sometimes causes performance issues and errors due to high volume of data. We need a "No data" mode for Dashboard & Exploration just like Query Studio. For Query Studio, we have a paramet...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Logs filtering for different job categories

Elevate Credit requested a feature to filter sdc logs data and identify different jobs categories such as financial jobs for auditing purposes.
8 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Oauth authentication for email notification

In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/exchange-online-to-retire-basic-auth-for-client-submission-smtp-auth/4114750. Currently ena...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Database configuration presentation options

Currently the Configuration screen of a database follows a model when after clicking on one of the 4 main groupings (Administration, Modelling, Performance and Access) the admin has to select a configuration option. Even with this type of prefilte...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Chore list split by scheduled/ non scheduled

Currently the chore list is arranged alphabetically. I would propose to add an option to split it in 2 sub-lists (similar to Public/Private viewing option of sets). One sub-list for scheduled chores, the other for non-scheduled. The clock/snore ic...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Need Restore asset option in UI

Now we have a option in v5.1.0 to remove an asset from the catalog. when removing asset we can purge immediately or purge after 30 days, however there is no option to restore the asset from UI. we need an enhancement in the coming update to addres...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 6 Not under consideration

Integration between IKC RE and Business Lineage views

We're looking for a feature where we need - Integration between IKC RE and Technical Lineage views
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Future consideration

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing.

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing. - Which statistics were looked at - Relative costs for table scan/index usage - Why a given index is not used - Which join orders are considered - Why join orders are excluded from t...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted