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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Add Home and Return Buttons in Legacy Portal

Have customized portal pages as per Legacy portal where users do not have capability to click on Home or Return buttons as they do not exist.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable "Modify" for ASC in shared filesystem deployment

Enable "Modify" for ASC in shared filesystem deployment.
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Not under consideration

Add Dicing to the Dashboard Table Widget

The table only highlights valid items.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow BACKUP on a split mirror system to include log files

This request is about the following scenario: production database is running on HOST1 split mirror is taken on HOST1 (with SET WRITE SUSPEND) and image is taken to HOST2 we want to offload the BACKUP operation to HOST2 (to avoid the overhead of b...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Securing Table Data from DBA Access

We have an application table that stores a quarterly key to encrypt/decrypt data in other tables, and need to protect these keys from DBA access (roque DBA potential). Using PERMISSION and TRUSTED CONTEXT helps some, but data can still be exposed ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

collbaoration Area - Access change based on Role & users Or renaming Collbaoration areas

Collaboration Areas Role change is not allowed in Version 11.6 This creates a problem to change and security requirement.
about 6 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Optional OR-based filters in report studio

In report studio, query filters are AND-combined by default. You can configure every filter to be optional, so that if the parameter is not filled, the filter is ignored. It would be useful if a similar way would work for OR-based filters. Our cas...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

HDR restart mechanism for Primary server.

HDR needs a mechanism to restart when the smx thread exits due to timeouts. (happened twice to us on our Primary HDR server). If the smx thred is restarted (which occurred several times),there is no message posted in the online log indicating so. ...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ssh into Watson Studio Cloud Notebook

Enable a mode to ssh into a Jupyter Notebook. The runtime cannot operate as a ssh server. If you work with your working laptop you cannot even reverse ssh into it due to firewall limitations. The only possibility is to go through an external devic...
about 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Prevent ER sync job of deleting records from child table on target

After talk with lab and support group the follwoing became clear: Under certain circumstances ER sync job can delete data from tables even if these tables are not part of the ER system. When a replicated table (target) has an unique index on a non...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration