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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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Enhanced Scheduling for Data Delay Monitoring

Optimize the configuration of data delay monitoring processes by incorporating a configurable calendar that allows including processes with non-daily frequencies (weekly, monthly, hourly, etc.). This would expand the monitoring coverage and improv...
3 months ago in Databand / Feature 0 Submitted

Dimension Editing in PAW needs more Safeguards to Prevent Catastrophic changes

It is far to eash to "corrupt" a dimension in PAW. Others have noted that defaulting to dimension editing when double-clicking could allow admins to inadvertently make changes. The warning about immediately applying changes is helpful. My specific...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Under review

CDC Latency - Long running UR

This enhancement idea is from the relevant case TS017574974 - Cdc latency wrong value on MC. When there is long running UR in the staging space (meaning the data is way behind), MC shows 0 latency value. Because of the all applications see this 0 ...
about 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review
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Sorting items in Team Content and My Content - folders before reports

Sort items (folders, reports) in the same way like in Cognos 10 - folders first and than reports.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 11 Functionality already exists

Show uncomplete saved Turbointegrator Processes in PAW like they were shown in TM1 Architect Explorer

In the old explorer in Architect uncomplete saved TI Processes were marked with a blue Dot in order to see which processes were saved with errors. In PAW there is no uncomplete saved Process marked in order to see directly if there are errors when...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

ServiceNow Platform Data Source Connector

Connection to a ServiceNow data source to be used within Data Virtualization and other CP4D Services.
6 months ago in Connectivity 1 Needs more information

Generate table definition structure using the db2 catalogue without the need to unload

It would be good if you could go to the db2 catalogue and use a line command at either database level or tablespace level and generate a SYSPUNCH file containing the table definition structure/s without the need to run an unload which can be more ...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Planned for future release

Ability to paste '-' characters as 0.

0 values formatted as a '-' in Excel cannot be pasted into Planning Analytics. This causes a spreading error. Users often format 0 values as a '-'. It would be helpful if Planning Analytics could interpret '-' as a 0 on paste.
about 1 month ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Light Theme in CP4D

A light theme for cloud pak for data and be activated/deactivated easily in the settings. Taking into consideration the font colors and background themes and colors.
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data 0 Submitted