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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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Trim blanks from 60 byte statement text in IFCID 316

IFCID 316 contains only the first 60 bytes of the SQL text. Some programs may, for readability, include lots of blank spaces around SQL text. In extreme cases (python scripts) the text is preceded by a line of blanks. In these cases the 60 bytes o...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Customized Refresh Interval for "Databases" page like DMS did.

Hello. DMC doens't provide a Customized Refresh Interval for "Databases" page like DSM did. According to Case TS010513163, the refresh interval is 5 minutes and can't be changed. Neither the Rest APIs can change that behavior. I would request a bu...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review

Route a report to run in background only (New Admin Feature)

We have some long running reports and users should run in background and not interactively. We do communicate to users to do this, but they do not always do it. I am requesting a feature where and Admin can make a report only run in background and...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Optional Date Prompt Check Box should be Unchecked by default

The optional behaviour of the date prompt is different to every other cognos prompt. it is even different to the date prompt when it is used in Range mode! When a date prompt is made optional, a check box appears to show if it should or should not...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

Allow use of query subjects with prompt macros in dashboards

We use prompt macros in filters in many Cognos package query subjects. When you attempt to use one of these query subjects in a dashboard it results in an error. The result is that we are unable to use these packages in dashboards. There is no wor...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

STMM Monitoring

With the memory statistics similar to the ‘db2pd -dbptnmem’ output within the STMM logs, it would be possible to get memory usage report over time from Db2 perspective without any permanent monitoring tool (as long as STMM is used/active). It woul...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Future consideration

Allow SPSS Modeler to use Oracle connections configured with Kerberos SSO authentication

why - A lot more secure and less additional credential management. And it makes end user lives just a little bit easier when they don't have to mess around with additional credentials.who - All SPSS Modeler users who use Oracle DB as data sources....
10 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Under review

Allow to set up a color of the answers in the questionnaire assessment the same way as we set up the colors of the enumerated values on the fields

As an example, users would like to see the No answer as Red and the Yes answer as Green. They say the color attracts much more attraction to the answer, then just a plain font.
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

[TM1Web] Hover on Websheet Chart to display underlying value

Many product can display the underlying value when hovering over the chart, but right now TM1Web cannot have this behaviour, a workaround is to either slice that to Excel or somehow create a supplementary report for data display, which is quite un...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

DB2: Enhancing DB2 decision making during starting up in DEFER ALL mode

We would like to enhance the DB2 product when starting a database with the "defer all" zparm parameter. It is unfortunate that there is a limit of 2500 in place, and it is also unfortunate that the trusted context is not automatically built, even ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration