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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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Data Manager enhancement: Mark job as DONE after file reaches final destination

We want the main job to be marked as DONE only after the data file has been successfully transferred to the user-specified destination. Currently, with the integration of LSF and Data Manager, the main job is marked as DONE as soon as the 'bstage ...
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Ability To Selectively Deploy Data Sources

We need the ability to have project admins (users, not people with SYSADM rights) export specific data sources from one environment to another, and have that respect the defined permissions. So: if a user wants to migrate a Dynamic Cube data sourc...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Specify Drill Target Report format when drilling from Dashboard

In Cognos Analytics 11 when drilling through from a Dashboard visualization to a Report want to have the option to select the target report format.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow relative path for dashboard images

Adding an image to a dashboard, the URL property does not allow relative path which makes deploying to different environments challenging.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Add sid to onstat -g tpf output

When using onstat -g tpf it would be better if sid was displayed to make this easier to tie back to a session. E.g. when looking for reverse scans on the instance.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Have another table sysesprof with reads/writes per session and bufferpool

Have another table sysesprof with reads/writes per sessioin and bufferpool https://community.ibm.com/community/user/datamanagement/discussion/error-25582-whats-a-reason-of?ReturnUrl=%2fcommunity%2fuser%2fdatamanagement%2fcommunities%2fcommunity-ho...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Platform support for Docker Container

We are trying to explore the possibility of having to install cognos on a docker container to maximize our hardware resources. Having it on the docker will save the OS running on every VM that was build from physical.
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

enhance filter for DB object to import into IKC

After executing metadata import from DB2 I need to review list or imported obects and remove some of them which wouldn't likely be the subject of further metadata enrichment work. Using the interface I cannot find a way to isolate one type from an...
5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

All items imported via Open Manta should be available to export for usage in other applications.

We require the capability to add RDMS and Integration technologies via Open Manta and can be exported to Solidatus for viewing.
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Functionality already exists

Database management between IBM Controller SaaS environments

New functionality for database backup and asset restore via administration on Controller Web works great for the environment you are connected to, say replicating Live (CCR01) to Test (CCR02) on the Production environment. This functionality does ...
5 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Future consideration