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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 lineage deletion in Open Manta Designer

Currently, Open Manta Designer does not provide functionality to delete lineage that was generated using the native Manta scanner. This creates challenges in managing and maintaining lineage data, especially when test or obsolete lineage needs to ...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

More filtering options in categories search

Hi, could you please add more filtering options in categories view search? Currently user can only search top level categories without any properties.
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Future consideration

Enhance Data Table with interactive features of List (i.e. sort by column)

We would like to use the new data table, that is available since 11.1.6 in our reports. But we are missing the interactive features, that are available for the Lists in reports. Especially the function to sort by any column is often used and needed.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

ARCRETN separation for copy1 and 2

We control the archive log retention for our shop using the ARCRETN zparm which controls both logcopy1 and locopy2. We would like the ability to control these independently as we have application data requirements to retain data for longer periods...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make SYSMON_GROUP configurable online

Make SYSMON group configurable online. Currently an outage is required to set or change SYSMON. While some DBAs set this whenever they build a system, others do not, and it is frustrating to request this fairly common level of permissions and to h...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Db2 timestamp(12) data type in DataStage and CP4D

The Db2 data type timestamp(12) (timestamp with a precision up to 12 digits of the second) is not supported by DataStage. This data type is used and required for temporal tables in Db2 (LUW) and Db2 for z/OS. Temporal tables are a very helpful fun...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Adding images to reports and dashboards

Currently only administrators can upload images.Anyone making a report should be able to upload images . Just like all the other BI tools out there
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Advanced Search

Would like to have the ability to do advance searching on Cognos Analytics. Right now, search is limited to just the name. Going forward, we would like to be able to search description and objects within reports, queries, and dashboards to be able...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enable AWS Secret Manager credentailstores to assume the IAM Role of an k8s serviceAccount

Currently, there is a limitation with SDC credentialstores when SDC runs in EKS. When SDC accesses AWS Secrets Manager via the credentialstore functions and the authentication configured in credential-stores.properties is instanceProfile, the role...
about 1 year ago in StreamSets 2 Under review

Global Search parameters in TFUI

Thank you for bringing back global search into the TFUI. Can you please also bring back option to include the parameters of the search. Right now it is only a search box that doesn't allow you to refine the criteria any further.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Not under consideration