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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    Make it possible to have a backup directory other than /tmp

    In some cases, /tmp is not large enough to hold RTM backups. We need an alternate path, in NFS even to store as the temporary backup location for the RTM database backup.
    24 days ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Under review

    Auto format of SQL statements before calling the various backend services like QWT etc.

    Since the currently UMS ui SQL parser is not very reliable it would make more sense to always call the official Admin SQL formatter which is more mature/reliable rather than the UMS ui parser. This will ensure that the SQL is always valid before c...
    24 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

    Bring MATLAB interface back for CPLEX

    Please bring back the MATLAB interface for CPLEX. We rely heavily on this feature since toolboxes we use are Matlab exclusive.
    almost 5 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 35 Future consideration

    Manta to natively support scanning of ADF (Azure Data Factory) jobs to provide Technical data lineage.

    At this point Manta doesn't have native scanner for ADF, but instead requires source-target mapping using Open Manta Designer. Few our customers (WSIB, Bombardier) are looking for native scanner support in Manta
    about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 9 Not under consideration

    Image description in Text Extraction

    The Text Extraction feature can read the content of an image using OCR. However, sometimes the text within the image is not enough to provide context. It would be very interesting if the model could describe what is inside the image. In addition t...
    9 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Under review

    Interactive Viewer Interface Enhancements

    The interactive viewer interface has areas where it could be improved. Filter Button. A report author can disable the interactive viewer functionality and toolbar to prevent a report consumer using the interactive viewer functionality. If the inte...
    8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release
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    Option to Run Schedule Once

    We were excited to see the My Schedules and Subscriptions menu added to Cognos Analytics 11.0.8, but found there was one option we previously had (and still have in the administration view) is to run a schedule once. Our users who heavily utilize ...
    about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Ability to update data within Grid

    When viewing data in a Grid view - be it the master grid view or a grid within a task view, it would be nice to have an edit mode toggle similar to how we currently have in task view where users can update attributes directly from the grid instead...
    3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

    DB2 utility should be protected in case of abend 878 - end of memory

    Hello there, This is related to IBM case TS016981605. DB2 was not able to manage correctly 878 abend (end of virtual memory below 16M line). Because of that, we had troubles in our production environment. In this case, IBM suggested to require a "...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Ability to start/stop Db2 listener without instance restart

    During unplanned or planned maintenance work on the database, we need to have the option to quickly block users from connecting remotely on the database. Especially we need to prevent users from implicitly activating the database. Our current work...
    7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

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