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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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Help for complex utilities

For complex utilities (I primarily mean REORG here but copy and runstats are getting there!) an addition to the OPTIONS with a new keyword SHOW or EXPLAIN or HELP. This would change the utility to be PREVIEW in all cases! And it will just output t...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Project Level Security Needed

We are using Watson Discovery v2.1.2 in CP4D and we see that a user added under “Manage users” for a WD instance with role “Admin” or “User” is able to not only access all project created by other users, but is also able to delete them. Our securi...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Planned for future release

Expand/Collapse Symmetrical and Asymmetrical in Universal Reports

Similar to the settings in PAW, it should be possible in PAfE / PASSL to expand or close C-elements asymmetrically in Universal Reports. In financial reports, several dimensions are usually nested in columns. E.g. Act vs. budget, years, months, wh...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Prompt/parameter defauts - Set by Query (Use Query as source instead of hardcoded text)

Instead of hardcoded text, have the option to use a query as the source for prompt/parameter defaults. This will make the default selection of a prompt dynamic (user can access each report with own preferences). In our company we need to be able t...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Provide an extract of transaction log to end-users in PAW in order to trace the history of users' inputs

The idea would be for example to add a function in the right click menu from a cell (from PAW views) to be able to contextually retrieve the history of data changes stored in transaction log (value before, after, user and date).
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Adding host/ip and port information of the malformated message in the SP log

The hostname and port information of the malformated message shall be added in the Safer Payments logs, in order to allow the user to track the application that sends such message.
12 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Under review

Add a custom currency format display for all views in Cube Viewer

There is an issue with the Cube Viewer in Planning Analytics for Excel and the currency format. Irrespective of the language settings the shown currency is dollar $. Through "Customize Format" there is an option of changing this to EUR (see pictur...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Submitted

Ability to show logged in users

Idea added by for Wells Fargo: I am trying to find out if there is a way to determine if there are any active Zowe(2.15)/UMS(PTF6) users signed in before shutting down the mainframe task. I did look around the UI and don't see anything? If there i...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Ability to configure default tabs

As an Admin, I want to be able to configure the order of All the tabs in the landing page.
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Add Option to Only Show Selected Databases in the Database Tree

As a developer working daily with IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), I often deal with a large number of database instances — over 50 in our enterprise environment. However, for my daily tasks, I only need access to two specific instances. Cu...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release