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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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In a UTS world shouldn't DSNUCH01 include DSNUM as 3rd column for this SYSCOPY's index?

In a UTS world shouldn't DSNUCH01 include DSNUM as 3rd column for the SYSCOPY's index?, since DB2 v12 all tablespaces should be defined as Universal Table Space, PBR or PBG. Segmented and Simple tablespaces are deprecated.
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

after bind/rebind with VALIDATE(RUN) authorization check of static sql is performed at run time. We need an ability to define, this check against the SQL authorization ID, not package owner

If a plan or package is bound with VALIDATE(RUN), authorization checking is still performed at bind time, but the referenced objects and the privileges required to use these objects need not exist at this time. If any privilege required for a stat...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

In AVZSIN00 - for the Define Database section the NAME parameter 4 chars is a limit

The name parameter has a limit of 4 chars. It is the connection name that user can see on DVM studio. Our external databases have names with more character and to have to convert them to only 4 could be a limit.For example ORAT1SRV need to be codi...
8 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration
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Ability to set size for Search & Select Prompt

By default the Select and Search prompt is a fixed size which makes it difficult for us to layout other components on our prompt page that align with this S&S component. Also, with its fixed size, it makes it difficult for us to render the pag...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Ability to configure an "audit" email address that is automatically copied to all emails being sent from Cognos

A customer of ours moved from on-prem to cloud service. On-prem, they used internal smtp and had a "send" rule added to automatically cc an audit inbox so they had visibility of exactly what being sent from Cognos and to who. Using their own smtp ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Allow RECOVER INDEX BACKOUT YES for index with COPY NO

The RECOVER TABLESPACE with BACKOUT YES is a relatively new recover option. It tells Db2 RECOVER to start with the current state of the tablespace and read the data change log backwards to find all recent changes to the tablespace and undo those c...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Equivalent Parallel Transform routine

We are converting server jobs to parallel jobs through the MettleCI tool. The tool works well on simple jobs, but we find that not all server jobs can be translated to parallel jobs. For example, we have an original job that exploits the UtilityRu...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Support for 4K Displays in Planning Analytics for Excel

Please add support for 4k/hiDpi/variable display density to Planning Analytics for Excel. The user has a display at 3840 x2160. The title element boxes when in Exploration view are very small as is the arrow to open the drop down to select an elem...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add native assistant variable of last called action

Add a native Assistant variable to store the last called action in the watsonx Assistant. This variable would allow developers to easily reference the most recent action executed, simplifying debugging/logs and enhancing workflow automation. It co...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Functionality to retrieve the outputs of a workflow directly within the assistant

Currently, it is not possible to retrieve the outputs of a workflow directly within the assistant. As a result, functionalities like parallel processing cannot be used to execute the workflow as a subaction, saving the output variables as assistan...
11 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Not under consideration