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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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Scheduler Job Configuration For Metadata Enrichment (MDE) jobs

Enable scheduling for MDE jobs based on specific time intervals, The scheduler should all execution on a particular Day, Week, Month or Year, With flexibility to align with our required time preferences
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Financial Reporting Sign Formatting

Financial data which is sourced from a General Ledger typically requires the reversal of the accounting sign for the majority of management and statutory reporting. For example, Income accounts are held as negative values in the Ledger however the...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Be able to selectively export individual records out of Catalogs using the Java API

When you have multiple IBM Product Master Environments, some for development and some for production, you may want to promote changes from development to production. However, if some records in a catalog are still in development when other records...
7 months ago in Product Master 3 Functionality already exists

Add a field in MON_GET_TABLE function to check whether Restrict on drop is enabled or not for a table

Missing Restrict on Drop clause while creating table can be costly! (DB2LUW) DB2 LUW provides a clause called "Restrict on drop". This clause should be used while creating a table. With Alter statement it can be disabled too. Why missing this clau...
over 1 year ago in Db2 2 Functionality already exists

Allow for Altering the Partitioning Columns Through Panels

When altering the columns involved in partitioning a table, several steps must be done which introduces complexity and potential for errors. This is the current provided solution: Do a GEN on the table and save the generated DDL. Adjust the partit...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

IBM Planning Analytics Workspace: Modify View Title format

There is no option to modify view title in PAW. Following options would be necessary at least: font style, font size, font color, background color
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Direct Integration with Vault

In our specific case we use both Azure Key Vault as well as Hashicorp Vault. The current setup lacks an inbuilt capability to read secrets from the vault. App apps will need a safe enough mechanism to store the credentials, keys, certificates etc ...
7 months ago in StreamSets 0 Functionality already exists

Show proper line numeration in TI process editor

Since our last upgrade of PAW (version 2.0.94) the numeration of lines of TI-process is not working properly, when at the end of the section (e.g. prolog) comments (#) are added. Those rows will not be counted, as they would not belong to the proc...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Monitor activities by the user

Regarding DMC capabilities, I would like to know if there is a possibility to monitor activities by the user. This is very important for our Db2 environment, whether qualified or unqualified table names are used (in case of unqualified names would...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 3 Functionality already exists

The ability to apply the DB2 Connect Unlimited Licence directly on zOS

It would be useful for DB2 sysprogs to be able to apply the DB2 Connect Unlimited Licence to a database natively on zOS without the need to install the runtime client and run the db2connectactivate utility.
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists