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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.

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User-Friendly Data or Event Alert Tool

Please add the ability to send an email or SMS alert based on a user-defined trigger, like a data-based alert. Have it send alerts or run + send reports to email or mobile device. The legacy Event Studio tool has more than enough functionality - b...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance CPDCTL Folder Export to include Dependencies in different folders.

Currently we have about 20-30 ETL processes in a project and if any one of the processes changed we do not want to do an export/import of the entire project. Exporting pipelines with Dependencies is a manual and cumbersome processes. We need to us...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Improvement of QREP to allow replication of data generated in the Db2 LOG by the LOAD utility with SHRLEVEL NONE LOG YES.

Need: Meet the growing demand for data replication from Banco do Brasil -Scenario:- Banco do Brasil is a large user of data replication using Qrep (IIDR) + Db2 v13 for z/OS, there are thousands of tables replicated from production environments for...
almost 2 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 1 Future consideration

Add Heatmap as a Chart Type in the Dashboard home page

Please add Heatmap as a chart type in the dashboard - this is a heavily used graphic used in risk management and should be an essential part of any GRC system. Senior level stakeholders and Executives require this in order to do their Risk Reporti...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

Automatic backup for PAW assets/ Manage PAW snapshots programatically

Currently, the data tier can be backed up by launching .bat scripts. (to create a zip) PAW reports are totally managed in the docker content store and we have no programmatic access to the creation of Snapshots. Snapshots can only be managed throu...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Not under consideration

Increasing LO_hdr_partn size limit in every chunk in sbspace Metadata partition

We have a system with a lot of users and big amount of BLOB/CLOB data. It's critical 24x7 application. It should be created a new sbspace about 1TB - with 8 chunks x 140GB every 6 months, because the limit in LO_hdr_partn in sbspace Metadata Parti...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Notification of a Failed Job Run from a Scheduled Task

Would like to be able to receive a notification when a Scheduled Task fails to start a job. Jobs stuck in a job status that is not inactive will fail to start and would like either an option to be notified of a failure when configuring the Schedul...
9 months ago in StreamSets 2 Under review

PA Cell Comment feature enhancement

Comment is a very useful feature for PA users, especially to maximize centralised interaction. This can be a powerful feature to differentiate with other analytics product offerings. However cell commenting feature is quite limited. As business pa...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Modify RQSTWLB behavior when JDBC connections use mismatched DDF alias and port combinations

When there are multiple DDF aliases using different ports, it is currently possible to connect to db2 using the wrong port and alias combination. Ideally this connection would terminate with an error instead of connecting, but that may be too sign...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Alerts/Notifications

Administrators and users should be able to set alerts/notifications that are based on data changes. They s/b able to do this from within the reporting and dashboarding UI's as business requirements demand. You are allowed to set conditional format...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Submitted