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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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send email with multiple different report outputs in it

A user schedules many reports and emails the outputs. They receive an email for each report they have scheduled. The user wants a single email with all outputs. Today, this can be achieved using Event Studio. But this solution is very hard for a t...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Planned for future release

dashboard filter greater than or less than

on dashboard filter is it possible to add a condition > greater than, < less than or >= and <=Thanks
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create DMR (dimension hierarchy) in Data Module

In Framework Manager, you can create a DMR. Can you add this functionality within a data module?
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add support for Hadoop corresponding to AWS EMR 7.8.x

OCLC have many critical business use cases around Hadoop and run an open-source flavor of it. They are currently running components corresponding to Cloudera CDP 7.1.7 but are planning to move to components corresponding to AWS EMR 7.8.0 and are a...
6 months ago in StreamSets 1 Not under consideration

PAW: dimension synchronization in same book

Currently, it is possible to set dimension synchronization for the entire book, or turn it off. I would be nice to set synchronization same dimension only for specific objects / lists in book. For example: dim Country is synchronized in the list 1...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Availability of DROP SYSTEM PERIOD for System temporal tables.

When a table is defined as a system temporal and the changes need to be reverted for any specific reason - A drop of system period would be needed. This functionality is available in Db2 LUW. Without this, the table has to be dropped and recreated.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Automate logon on the cloud

There is currently no way to automate the logon to the cloud in the API for PAx. Therefore, I cannot fully automate the generation and dissemination of Excel reports that use Planning Analytics On-Demand. It has to be a person's daily task to open...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Consolidate free space across entire chunk or dbspace

I suggest a repack-like tool which consolidates free space in an entire chunk or dbspace in order to get few, big enough, free spaces to use efficiently. Being able to do so online and with little blocking is desirable
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Remove email notification when workflows complete "Run in background"

We have custom actions on workflow steps which take a while for it to complete, because of this when a user triggers the action step, they are greeted with a loading screen. A way to mitigate this is to set the step to "Run In Background" so that ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

"lim -t" phrases for aarch

Referring to TS018491466. We obtain the following architecture details by doing the $LSF_SERVERDIR/lim -t on the AARCH machines. AArch64Processorrev2aarch64 AArch64Processorrev1aarch64 AArch64Processorrev0aarch64 And this looks to not be in phrase...
11 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration