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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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REORG DISCARD for RTS history tables

The history data collected in SYSTABSPACESTATS_H and SYSIXSPACESTATSS_H are filled so quickly and causes huge impact on catalog and directory storage group. However the only maintenance mechanism available at the moment is delete command with wher...
8 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Pipelines in Next Gen DataStage requires compilation in a protected environment ( Production environment )

Next Gen DataStage: At present, pipelines require compilation in a protected environment (Production). This process updates the last modified date on the log, which raises concerns about tracking changes and identifying what modifications were int...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Issue an appropriate message instead of a dump in case of 00E20015 occurrence

A clear DSN... message indicating the problem ASCB is more helpful than a dump. The asid (in R2) could be already another ASCB, so this is ambiguous. The dump could be supressed in my opinion. We have such a lot of cases in which we are forced to ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

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

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 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

Create folders inside project

We have multiple users that are currently developing and maintaining 100 of SPSS flows, that are complaining that their projects gets very messy. The solution to this could be to allow folders inside projects. as breaking this out to smaller proje...
26 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

User can share customized dashboard panel with another user

We have users that want to create a dashboard panel which is more focused on their country: e.g. issues assigned to the 4 different managers across their country. This is not something we can make available for every user because of the specific a...
26 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

The default role of a new PAW user should be configurable

In PAW a new user is created automatically, when he logs in for the first time by approproate settings. In this case the new user is always defined as "Analyst" by default. I have a customer, who wants to have new users created as "Consumer". Up t...
26 days ago in Planning Analytics 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 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted