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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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Add Ability to Generate Report Showing INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE Activity by AUTHID

Please add the ability to generate a report that can summarize INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE activity by AUTHID. This would look similar to a summary report, but instead of reporting counts by table, it would be by AUTHID. It seems currently the only way t...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Manage existing FT accounts and create new ones in PAA Administration

IBM changed all existing FTPS/SFTP accounts connection to ft-eu.planning-analytics.cloud.ibm.com After the change, customers are able to create new FT accounts and apply ACLs to them, that way you can limit required access to desired folders only....
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Generating monitor report by schema name in Data Management Console

When creating monitor reports in DMC, the granularity for reports is the whole database, e.g. reports can be generated only at the database level. If there are several schemas in the same database, the abbility to generate reports at the schema le...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 2 Under review

Calculations -- FOR Loops

Calculations often require a long list of 'if/elif/else' statements (sometimes over 100 of them) to account for a lot of management of lists and larger inputs. Adding a For loop would significantly reduce the complexity and maintenance of large ca...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Future consideration

Data Table enhancements

Like what is in Data Tables as a start, but there is functionality missing from them. I can't change the order of grouping, i.e. say I want the current biennium to show in the first row, no way to do this. Filter is lacking, it needs a deselect an...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Planned for future release

Clear license validation cache result for IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ

Based on discussion with IBM Support, when connecting to z/OS via the IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ, the result of license validation is cached for 7 days. We want to be able to invalidate this cached result on demand.
4 months ago in Db2 0 Under review

Embedded agent web chat static content translation

1. Why is it useful? Adding a static content translation feature would significantly improve the accessibility and usability of the chat experience for global audiences. It ensures consistent multilingual experiences across both static and dynamic...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Needs more information

Have column headers in crosstab describing the row header data - CUG2026

Having columns with IDs in crosstab row headers, without description makes data hard to understand. E.g. having "1" and "2" as row header, could by a running-count or a hour, a day, a month or year. This can be achieved in HTML and Export to Excel...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

REST API: return more object details

For the Cognos Analytics REST API to provide the ability to remotely and automatically administer Cognos Analytics, all information about objects must be available through the REST API. Please make detailed items like report specifications, data m...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 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