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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    Support NetApp SnapMirror technology for low-RPO Backup/Restore Capability

    Support the use of NetApp (trident) SnapMirror technology (via Astra Control Center and/or Trident Protect) to provide a low-RPO solution for backup and recovery of CP4D in an alternate failover location.
    10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Under review

    Add BIGINT support for source/target DB2 for i

    BIGINT type is supported into DB2 for i for years. Why doesn't support BIGINT by CDC ? Indeed, currently everyone use BIGINT type to create colums key (primary or forreign keys). In fact, We can't use these values into filters or derived columns. ...
    10 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

    Enhancing the table or crosstab visiual

    When having a table that contains a column that's a parent for others for examples it merge this cell in way making it hard to read, additionally i can't control the column width size. This affects in one of big telecommunication client experience.
    10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

    SERVERNUM limitation need to increase

    As you know, now servers are more powerful and can take more load, also there is not issue for storage and we can use SAN for this purpose so it is time to increase SERVERNUM limitation, currently we can only create 256 instances on one server . W...
    over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Allow Better Aggregation Stage options such as the same column with multiple aggs or count option within the calculation option.

    We have a need to do multiple aggregations on the same column for a grouping. 1. Sum it, 2. Count rows. You cannot use the same column twice, and count is not even an option within the calculation section, it is a separate option and exclusive.
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

    Index for a subset of rows

    Possibility to index only specific rows of one or more columns. This could be implemented with a WHERE clause in the index create statement and would rsult in a tiny index for exactly the rows you are interested in.
    almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

    Validation of inputs based on rules

    At the moment we can not prevent users from entering invalid information - we have rules about allowed values, but no way to implement them. Simple rules yes ("pick value from list") but we have e.g. different types of terms, and the validation ru...
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

    In My schedules and subscriptions, under Past, give the user more information to troubleshoot a failure

    In My schedules and subscriptions, under the Past view, for failures the only information provided to the user is the:-entry name-request time-status (Testing failed or Failed in R8 and R9 respectively) This is not enough information for an end us...
    almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    PAW: Self-defined templates for new tabs

    Creating a new tab in a book, one can choose a template to get defined areas on the dashboard where one can pull objects to and get them maximized/arranged. Can you please offer the possibility to extend the list of templates by self-define ones?
    over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

    Add Graded Scale conditional formatting to Reporting Lists and Crosstabs, and Dashboard crosstabs

    Excel has Graded Scale conditional formatting... when we are asked to replicate a report that uses Graded Scale formatting, it is not possible in Cognos
    over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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