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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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IKC Data Quality Rules should have life cycle statuses

IKC Data Quality Rules should have life cycle statuses like business terms. Candidate, Approved and Deprecated. [edit] And these statuses should reflect also to IKC Data Mart it is only about lifecycle status property, but the solution would be to...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 4 Planned for future release

Lock shareholdings popup form in Controller Web for editing of transaction dates older than current period

When populating the account connected to investment in group companies the popup window ensure correct values being entered into the data entry form. The feature that allows you to add rows with transaction dates within the current period is a goo...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

CPD Backup with Storage Fusion for Db2 in HADR mode

Right now it is not possible to use Storage Fusion Software to backup Db2 on CPD, when Db2 is operating in HADR mode. We need to be able to backup Db2 on CPD with Storage Fusion, even when Db2 is running in HADR mode
about 1 year ago in Db2 2 Planned for future release

Contional Formatting in Vizualisations in Dashboarding

We would like the ability to conditionally format visualisations in dashboarding. For example, to apply RAG to a bar based on a specific criteria. Or to highlight something in red if a specific criteria is met etc.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Add Option to Only Show Selected Databases in the Database Tree

As a developer working daily with IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), I often deal with a large number of database instances — over 50 in our enterprise environment. However, for my daily tasks, I only need access to two specific instances. Cu...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Lifecycle management of logs in LSF license scheduler

LSF License Scheduler generates blcollect.log and bid.log, and these logs increase over time. Since the license scheduler does not provide a log management feature, when the logs become too large, the administrator must move the files. Of course, ...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Planned for future release

We will like to see some automated way to change just the IP when we failover to our disaster recovery site instead of making it a manual process on the Admin Console

We have automated the changes we do on our disaster recovery site by submitting batch jobs to alter the ALIAS for InSync once the DB2's start. Since the private Network does not change and we recover via GDPS the accelerator connects with no issue...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Planned for future release

Shortcuts to reports should have similar functionality as the the reports they reference

In Cognos 10 we relied on using shortcuts to reference reports so that users could run a report easily without having to know the exact location of the source report. In Cognos 10, you had all the same run options on a shortcut as you did on the s...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Ability to control what shows in the default IBM tool catalog

As the number of tools available increases, the time to install them increases. Not every company needs all these tools at their disposal.
8 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Planned for future release

Dashboard: How to set the column width of the table freely.

The width of columns cannot be set freely in the table for dashboard. If that is possible, valuable space can be effectively utilized.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Planned for future release