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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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Prompt to confirm the Takeover

In certain scenarios a Tablespace wouldn't have a NORMAL state at the Standby database. Depending on how important is that Tablespace and if it would be easily get back to NORMAL state or not, the user could decide to decline the Takeover. A table...
2 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2 Needs more information

Please correct to execute a complete search if the primary key of IMS-DB is specified in || (concatination).

When executing SQL, a complete search is not performed but a search of all counts is performed if the primary key of IMS-DB is specified in || (concatination). This is poor performance to use DVM.Please correct to execute a complete search even if...
5 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Support the arrow keys in Db2 CLP on Linux

The Db2 CLP, since decades, does not handle arrow keys. This makes it hard to quickly go back to previous commands and edit statements. It's a nuisance to most Db2 users. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62298637/using-arrow-keys-within-db2...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Submitted
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Ability to Schedule a refresh of an Uploaded File

I would like to have the ability to schedule a refresh of an uploaded file. If you store your excel or text to a file share and grant Cognos access to that share, you should have the ability to schedule a refresh of that data file.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 10 Future consideration

Assume IAM Role instead of using IAM Access Key and Secret (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client, Itaú, follows a strict security policy based on the principle of least privilege, which requires all authentication and authorization operations to be carried out through IAM Roles, rather than using IAM Access Key and Secret pairs, wh...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Under review

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...

Consistent Set Behavior in PAfE: Enable Dropdown for Unnamed Sets Too

Dear IBM Planning Analytics Team, I wanted to share feedback on an inconsistent behavior in PAfE reports regarding sets, which affects usability for many users. Current Behavior: For a named set, clicking a cell directly shows a dropdown list of e...
26 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

OpenTelemetry

Please develop an OpenTelemetry Interface for DB2, so that at least on a top level, DB calls can be traced. Ideally, it could be brokwn down to more detail.
27 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Add limit for multi choice filters

In order to allow Cognos (integrated in OpenPages) to elaborate reports' queries, we ask to add a blocking message when too many items are selected. We would prefer a dynamic message: if not possible, a fixed cap would also be acceptable. We ask t...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas 2 Under review

New PAW visualisations required

We have a need to bring into PAW visualisations in two chart types which, currently, we need to build in PAW but the range of visualisations can't support the design we want. We require two chart types to be included amongst the current suite of v...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted