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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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Support to load LIST-MAP field type to Object Data Type in Snowflake

LexisNexis is consuming data from MongoDB and writing to Snowflake. The consumer stage always returns all fields as LIST-MAP type. Requesting to extend support for LIST-MAP fields to load into Object datatype? This would help us avoid additional t...
9 months ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Trigger tools at User Sign-On

A skill tool should be triggered at sign-on such that the user can be prompted into a personalized flow. Imagine if the users work to resolve ServiceNow tickets assigned to them. If we run a skill to retrieve the tickets assigned to that user id, ...
over 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Under review

Capture individual transactions across the different capabilities/services within CP4D

We would like to capture individual transactions across the different capabilities/services within CP4D. This will provide visibility on what customer transactions are running on the platform. The key fields that we are interested in are as follow...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Character length semantics instead of byte length semantics

We want to store UTF8 text data into our database but using byte length semantics is counter intuitive on the char and varchar types. We are using Fourj's Genero tool to develop our application and Genero is able to switch to character length sema...
almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Future consideration

transaction log backup compress and encrypt on SQL Server

currently we are experiencing replication issues such as the one in PMR no TS009339747 with the error the transaction log backup is compressed or encrypted. IBM Infosphere Data Replication does not support compressed or encrypt. currently, why log...
over 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

Alert Banner Time Limit

Please allow an option to modify the time-limit of Alert Banners to disappear introduced with 11.2.4 version. In earlier versions, Alert Banners never disappeared, along with dismiss button. With 11.2.4, noticed the Banners disappear after 120 sec...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 3 Future consideration

Customize Field Displayed in My Tasks

Ability to customize to allow add/removing of fields on the My Tasks list/grid will help prioritize & manage tasks. Currently, the view is missing fields that would help users quickly identify what is needed to be known about the task without ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Going back to workflow previous versions

While workflows show the version number, there is currently no way to go back to older versions.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Double-click options for dimensions and sets in PAx

Double clicking on the dimension name should open up the default set in the set editor. Right clicking on a dimension name should offer an option to open the default set in the set editor. Double clicking on a named set should open up that set in ...
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Improve AOT backup performance

We're using IDAA loader V 2.1 to run backups for very huge AOTs. When IDAA loader takes a backup from an IDAA AOT it uses SQL multirow fetch to transfer the data from IDAA into a z/OS sequential file. This may work fine for small AOTs. But in our ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under consideration