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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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Support for multiple Export Resource Mapping in Open Manta Extensions Connection

In the current setup of Manta Open Manta Extensions connections, we observe a limitation with the export configuration. The OME connection provides only One field to export Custom ETL lineage to external tools like Alation. When multiple custom ET...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration

Allow persistent subscriptions to reconnect when there has been a recoverable database connection error

We have been receiving SQL connection error messages on our DB2 LUW source instances that include the text: "SQLSTATE 08506: A connection failed but has been re-established.". Support has indicated that this is functioning as designed and persiste...
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

SAS code to python code

There are opportunities where customers are exploring converting SAS code to Python code.
about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 3 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics REST API to query datasources used by packages

Automated way of querying the details about the datasources used by packages needs to be established. It is currently achieved using SDK with a limitation that the JAVA memory crash happens when executing SDK against a huge package while querying ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

To have numerical filters like 'greater than', 'between',etc., for fields of type Integer on Dashboard

Problem Statement: We see String based filters like "Contains", "Equals", "Starts with" etc., for a field which is of Integer Data Type on the Dashboard. Steps To Reproduce : Drag the integer field to any Visualization in the dashboard and try fil...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to Customize Dasboard Map Layers, Boundaries, etc.

Not having the ability to customize the city/county/etc. 'library' of the dashboard map severely limits its usefulness. Case #TS000146878
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Temporal Table extension for Auditing and Interface Design

Add functionality to allow the use of temporal tables for auditing purposes by adding functionality like in Db2 for z/OS: - A column GENERATED ALWAYS AS (DATA CHANGE OPERATION)- ON DELTE ADD EXTRA ROW functionality to record who deleted a rowIn co...
about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

OpenPages - Text field - need character count

Generally, all free text fields (should) have a character countdown. Also, from a user experience perspective, when the character limit is reached, a user should not be able to type more Characters; currently it allows the user to keep typing more...
almost 7 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Print Functionality

"Expand All" functionality would help to save "mouse" clicks for print preparation.
almost 7 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Multiple SDU models per Collection

in my domain of business, clients put different kind and format of documents in the same collection. We need the possibility to have multiple SDU models in the same collection. Every SDU model get applied to a specific set of files identified by a...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration