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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    Setting Variables, such as style or render, should be available on multi-selected items

    If I want to apply the same attributes to multiple items in a report, then I can select the many items and apply the property.For example, if I want to apply the same conditional style, font to a number of list columns then I can select all the ap...
    27 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted
    437 VOTE

    Reorg Utility Progress data is missing in db2 list utilities and db2 list utilities show detail command

    The db2 list utilties and db2 list utilities show detail command will not display the Reorg utility progress. 1) The command will display the Runstats progress details for the table 2) The command will display the Load progress details for the tab...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 73 Not under consideration

    The timestamp function does not yet fully support use across multiple global locations with different time zones

    For example, the timestamp is set for Tokyo time and for US end users, when they sign-off on something using the workflow. If they are signing off on a test using the action button in the workflow at 12:00 noon, it will show a date of the next day...
    about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Planned for future release

    Request for bundling GPFS/Storage Scale 5.2 or later with Db2 pureScale v11.5

    Overview We are requesting to bundle GPFS/Storage Scale version 5.2 or later with Db2 pureScale 11.5. Currently, GPFS/Storage Scale 5.1.x is bundled with Db2 pureScale v11.5 Mod9 CSB 58840 or later. However, GPFS/Storage Scale 5.1.x is scheduled t...
    4 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 5 Under review

    Allow security menu group rights to be imported

    Customer received internal audit comment with >4000 comments for their existing 41 users in Controller and needs to make adjustments to the security group limitations. However, it is too tedious to edit manually. They are requesting enhancement...
    29 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

    Provide capability to configure Profiles for the UI (ADDI)

    We are a customer using COBOL written with a Macro Framework and a complex middleware layer. To support this, we configured ADDI with pre-processor extensibility. Our developers have diverse requirements regarding what they want to see in the call...
    12 days ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Submitted
    538 VOTE

    Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

    Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
    about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

    Change the NUMDB without having to stop/start

    Change the NUMDB without stopping or starting.The client constantly needs to create new databases to support various IBM tools such as BAW, ELM, CONTENT MANGER and ON DEMAND. Whenever new databases are created, they need to change the NUMDB parame...
    3 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

    Confirmation button when running a process from a button

    This is could be useful to ask users whether they are really sure (for instance, clearing many cells for the right scenario/version/year combination). Ideally, a customizable message like: "Are you sure to delete Actuals from pYear-pMonth ?" By de...
    about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    LOAD should be compatible with a snapshot backup

    LOAD is not compatible when an integrated snapshot backup (or when the backup is issued with the USE SNAPSHOT option) is being performed. During an integrated snapshot backup, in addition to the database being put into set write suspend state, it ...
    3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Under review

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