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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    Gitops pattern for DataStage NG/Cloud Pak for data installation / update

    The customer has implemented a standard for containerized deployments (CD pipeline) towards Kubernetes/Openshift with the following stages: Git → ArgoCD → k8s/Openshift The current installation of Datastage based on CPD shall use the GitOps patter...
    5 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 2 Submitted

    Advanced Formatting Options Applied in Dashboards, Explorations, and Stories

    In Data Modules you can format an item using advanced options such as patterns etc. I want to be able to apply patterns on dates in particular. It works fine in reporting but does not appear the same way in my dashboard. Per the documentation it s...
    7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

    Make IFI process zIIP eligible

    With more and more data being replicated off host, the replication tasks are increasingly using more and more CPU to read the logs. Allowing the IFI read process to be zIIP eligible would help reduce our general purpose CPU consumption. This would...
    about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

    Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW should respect privileges granted to Roles/Groups and not require privileges to be granted explicitly to Users

    This idea is for RE LUW, not RE z/OS. There does not appear to be an entry for RE LUW in the IBM Ideas portal. IBM L2 support suggested that I open the Idea under RE z/OS. While installing Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW, we received the following err...
    12 months ago in Db2 0

    Cognos 11 Dashboard with REST API capabilities

    We embed cognos reports and dashboards into another web app. For the new dashboards we cant send parameters in the URL to filter the dashboard via iframes. we use datasets.
    over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Backup Individual database, not entire instance

    Need a mechanism, similar to ontape, to backup a live database (as opposed to entire instance), without locking it.
    over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

    Option to change the default for the Search Scope in Set Editor in PAfE

    PAW remembers the last used search scope. In PAfE this is not the case. I would be useful to have this feature in PAfE too. Or an option to the change the default to "search with descendants".
    9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

    Complaint : Transaction log

    Rather not an idea - but a major complaint (!) How is it possible that after a switch to a new tool - existing and essential functionality is discontinued ? Currently, the transaction log lacks the functionality to select a node (parent element). ...
    9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    Create a screen for administrators that shows users currently logged in

    There are many occasions where we wish we had a screen to see a list of users currently logged into the system. For example, we may consider restarting an instance and we want to notify only those users currently logged in.
    over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Make Picklists Case Sensitive

    Currently picklists in Planning Analytics are only case sensitive when directly inserting values into cells. When copy pasting values the picklist becomes case insensitive. This led to errors in some of our tools which are based on our TM1 databas...
    over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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