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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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Allow to execute stored procedures from the Explore Objects list or RUN SQL

Application developers and DBAs execute stored procedures directly from Data Studio, Toad for DB2, DBeaver etc. interfaces but it is not possible in DB2 Admin Foundation therefore not very helpfull.
about 1 month ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Please improve the quality of the grpahical output for Visual Explain.

Since Data Studio is now extinct the only way to generate a visual explain graphic is by using DB2 Admin Foundation or VS Code Developer Extension. Unfortunately, the quality of the graphical output for Visual Explain is like something from the 19...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Auto format of SQL statements before calling the various backend services like QWT etc.

Since the currently UMS ui SQL parser is not very reliable it would make more sense to always call the official Admin SQL formatter which is more mature/reliable rather than the UMS ui parser. This will ensure that the SQL is always valid before c...
10 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Lineage should be available in reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules

Cognos lineage works for reports (not interactive mode) using framework packages. Lineage should be available also in the newer cognos tools like reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules. Should be provided as built in to cognos and not a...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

trigger.sh no plaintext password as parameter

trigger.sh from Cognos has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the prozess table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should not b...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Planned for future release

Manage/view another users scheduled report/activities without using an Analytics Administrator license

There are hundreds of scheduled reports that are managed by departmental users. if the owners of the scheduled reports are unavailable and/or the schedules need to be re-run, The Activities screen lets them see the progress of their activities in ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Provide a Zowe setting to suppress any prompting for a client certificate when accessing Zowe from a browser.

Today we have been forced to use as cumbersome unique set of AT-TLS rules to prevent a user from being prompted for a certificate so they don't select an invalid certificate causing connections to fail outright. We would like to eliminate as much ...
9 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

add format SQL and separate query block functionality that was in Data Studio

format SQL especially helpful to aid tuning. Functionality provided in Data Studio but missing in UMS - these options we along side import DGTT DDL
3 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Produce explain Summary Report as was produced in Data Studio

In addition to the index, table, and predicate reports, Data Studio produced a Summary Report that we'd like to see produced
3 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Configure Cognos Mail Server using OAuth

With the deprecation of basic authentication scheduled for October, the configuration of our SMTP server (Exchange online) will no longer work as this uses basic authentication. We need a way to use OAuth to connect to our 365 smtp server. There i...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration