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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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Data Visibility Problem

When we select the "Table" option under "Object Type" on the "Dashboard-Explore-Objects" page of the Admin Foundation product and view the tables, the data stored within those tables can be seen under the "Data" heading. While the visibility of th...
6 minutes ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS Submitted

support client certificates for the IntSync userid

In our env the IntSync userid is a Non Personal user  Account. For these users we have to use enhanced Passticket or Client Certificates., no Passwords and legacy passtickets Can you implement Client Certificates in IDAA IntSync stream? Other...
1 minute ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS Submitted

Inconsistent Search Behavior when "Show Members Only for Dimensional Packages" Is Enabled

In the Edit mode of the reporting interface, by enabling the package display option "Show members only for dimensional packages", users can browse the package by seeing the dimension names and their corresponding members, which is very similar to ...
about 4 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting Submitted

Automatic Update Capability for IBM SPSS Desktop Products

IBM SPSS updates are currently distributed through customer-managed software deployment solutions such as SCCM or Intune. While this approach works well for standard software distribution, it can create significant effort and organisational overhe...
about 4 hours ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler Submitted

Parallel Chunk Backup for ON-Bar and ifxclone

Large Informix dbspaces and sbspaces often consist of many chunks added over time. Although Informix 15 supports very large instances, ON-Bar and ifxclone process chunks within a dbspace or sbspace sequentially. A 5 TB sbspace with 30 chunks backe...
about 8 hours ago in Informix / Informix Server Submitted

Support Fabric OneLake as a staging location for the Microsoft Fabric Warehouse connector

Problem statement / pain point (real-life scenario):We are implementing CP4D's "Microsoft Azure Fabric Warehouse" connector for a multi-country banking client whose entire data platform is built natively on Microsoft Fabric — a single Fabric works...
2 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service Submitted

ALTER TABLESPACE ... INSERT ALGORITHM 0

Today a Tablespace can be created with IAG0  but alteration is only possible to IAG1 or 2. When I want to fallback after testing a different IAG on a IAG0-tablespace today it is neccessary to drop/create the tablespace to go back to IAG0. Cur...
3 days ago in Db2 for z/OS Submitted

SQL-Statement in Uppercase on Explain Dynamic Statement Cache

Using command "E" (Explain) on Db2 Admin Tool for z/OS, and then "SCT" (Statement Cache Table) you can enter a SQL-Statement. If you like to search for a specific SQL statement, you have to enter the SQL statement case-sesitive. I would prefer to ...
4 days ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS Submitted

Test Connection

In Tab Team credentials I find it is only a key value stored. There is no way to validate its value unless it is used by an agent. This design is so bad to start build solid foundation of testing
4 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate Submitted

DB2 UI should support selection of active tenant

As with db2 12 multitenant support was added, using the UI of the DB2 Cloud service is limited when using the tenant functionality. While for the SQL window it is still possible to use "Set Tenant X" as a first statement followed by the actual SQL...
4 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud Submitted