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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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Customizable Table Naming in IBM Cognos Dataset Store

I have a suggestion for enhancing the Dataset Store feature in IBM Cognos, which automatically creates a table in DB2 upon uploading a CSV file. Currently, the table names are generated with a pattern that includes a prefix 'Cog' followed by two s...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

issue DISPLAY BLOCKERS instead of DISPLAY CLAIMERS when DRAIN timeout

Currently when DRAIN fails during REORG, a DISPLAY CLAIMERS is issued. The draw back is there is no "age" information, so user does not know which thread is the blocker, because the claimer could also be waiter.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

connect queries from multiple packages in a report

When you have multiple packages in one report, be able to connect them in the report. Now only possible by combining them in a data module: when you use two packages in one report, it is not possible to combine dataitems from one package with a da...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

MDX able to recognise Custom Consolidation

Custom Consolidation (aka Rollup, User-Defined Consolidation) is a relatively common practice for business analyst to do ad hoc analysis, detail of how to create custom consolidation can refer to this documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/pla...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Improve exports to Powerpoint on PA-Workspace

Export vers Powerpoint improved with 16:9 parameters and with custom mask (logo, image, police)
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Allow DBM CFG FEDERATED YES ONLINE configurable

Allow DBM CFG FEDERATED YES ONLINE configurable Db2 federation is activated by: UPDATE DATABASE MANAGER CONFIGURATION USING FEDERATED YES To use federation it is necessary to stop/start database manager. Please make it possible to activate federat...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Not under consideration

Composite License Packaging for Simplified Allocation

Introduce a capability in IBM LSF License Scheduler to define a single package name that represents multiple license features. When this package is allocated, all underlying licenses are automatically allocated together. This would be similar to h...
2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 1 Future consideration

Image resize that translates to Cognos Reports

When using the CKEditor in OpenPages, you can resize images using the corners. Unfortunately, when you run a Cognos report, the image shows in its original size as when it was uploaded. In order to make images the appropriate size for the PDF repo...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 2 Under review

An enhancement on the graph so that the program to transaction link is displayed somehow even when that program is complied as part of the AD Project

When building CSD data Configuration objects, ADDI is not recognizing some of the transactions in some of the Groups within the CSD.
2 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

staged create index with focus on always on

We would like to create an index in Db2 for z/OS without interruption during ongoing operations. Idea is to get an option during create index to mark this index as "in creation". Such marked index would be ignored during BIND, REBIND and not maint...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review