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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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Image resize that translates to Cognos Reports

When using the CKEditor in OpenPages, you can resize images using the corners. Unfortunately, when you run a Cognos report, the image shows in its original size as when it was uploaded. In order to make images the appropriate size for the PDF repo...
6 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support for Multi-Factor Authentication

Using a multi-factor authentication account (RSA token) when creating and configuring a shared repository and relational data source causes the user account to lock due to too many attempts using invalid credentials. Please implement support for M...
5 months ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Under review

Export global search list result

Using the Global Search function on the homepage, we would like to be able to export the data list result. In fact, actually is not possible to extract and download the result list.
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Allow users to choose the preferred output format in the Cognos Toolbar before the users need to choose the selections on the prompt page and run the report in OpenPages

Users need to wait until the report provides the results in the default format until they can choose the desired format in the Cognos toolbar in OpenPages. For the reports without the prompt pages users can select the format before running the rep...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 1 Under review

The product must encrypt all stored user passwords

When a user creates a batch job from QMF zClient, their credentials are stored in plain text (unencrypted) in the following path within a QMF Server Standalone installation: /.../Application Data/IBM/QMF Server/sdata/[userID]/user/.storage Specifi...
2 months ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Support macOS and Linux on QMF for Workstation 12

QMF for Workstation v12 and above only runs on Windows OS. Provide support for running QMF for Workstation v12 on macOS and Linux platforms as well. This allows full functionality to be provided to users on these platforms.
almost 6 years ago in QMF for z/OS 12 Not under consideration

QMF for Websphere – admin should set preferences for its users

QMF gives the possibility to set preferences and they are stored in the session data for each user and for each different browser in the application data in the machine where QMF was installed. Administrators should set preferences for all the use...
12 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

QMF read only mode

QMF client has an "edit table" mode which issues unnecessary update statements even when a simple select is done. From a security stand point, this is a problem as when the DB2 database is audited, it looks users are doing UPDATES even if they jus...
10 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

QMF v12 functions stopped working after Windows 11 upgrade

Client uses QMF for Workstation v12 under Windows 10 without errors. Client platform upgraded to Windows 11, now some underlying functions that worked on QMF v12 no longer works. Client needs help with determining if QMF needs patching (or version...
5 months ago in QMF for z/OS 4 Functionality already exists

The "Files and Attachments" should be available for reporting as well

Currently there is no mechanism to show the related/uploaded Files i.e., SOXDocuments for reporting in Cognos, this limits the capability of the report and the users always have to navigate back to the system to see, if there are any attached file...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 1 Under review