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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    Eliminate x-locks on CREATE INDEX DEFER YES to improve concurrency

    This is similar to DB24ZOS-I-1114 and DB24ZOS-I-1689. When attempting to create an index with CREATE INDEX DEFER YES, there should be no need to lock packages that are dependent on the table. Requiring an x-lock doesn't seem necessary. With phase-...
    12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

    Need configuration option to force uniqueness across all users within a CPD instance

    Need configuration option to force uniqueness across all users within a CPD instance (account tenancy boundary respected) to create a project all time with a unique name. if the project any project name is already exist UI shouldn't be allow to cr...
    12 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Under review

    Force LOAD COPY location with HADR

    LOAD COPY files can go anywhere, but when running HADR, they should only go to a shared location. If they do not, then the tables on the standby will be unavailable on failover. Those doing LOADs may not know or understand the impact of this. Ther...
    about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    User should be created automatically from connected group (LDAP/SAML/OIDC) and not after the first login

    LDAP/SAML/OIDC connected user groups users are not automatically created as CP4D users. This restrict user administrators to give further permissions for the users like adding category roles
    over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 7

    Drop down list with search option prompt in Cognos Analytics

    We have installed Cognos 11.1.7 FP2 and our customers want to have the following prompt type in their report: drop down list with CustomerIDs with the possibility to search for a value in the list (using copy+paste option to search for a CustomerI...
    about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

    Add fixed and relative values to baseline visualization

    While building dashboards, it's common to have to see the baseline of a graph (lines or bars). This feature already exists in report studio (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=properties-baselines)
    about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Under review

    Except, < and > filter in Dashboards

    I have lots of customer requirements for dashboards which are type of “show values for all vendors except one special” or “Give me all customers with revenue greater than $ xyz”. There’s no good way in achieving this kind of filtering in dashboard...
    almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

    Add dbschema to Informix CSDK

    Developers have the Informix Client SDK installed on their workstations / application development machines. There is the need to be able to dump the Informix databases schemas definitions, but the SDK does not provide any such tool. To work around...
    over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

    Support Silent Switch Installations for DVM Studio, JDBC Drivers and ODBC Drivers

    At our site users do not have the option to download and install software on their work computers unless that software has been approved and made available from an internal central software download site. Users do not have administrative rights an...
    over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

    Two Factor Authentication support with Cognos Analytics 11.x & 11.0.x

    Currently there is no 2FA provided for the On Prem Cognos Analytics. Recently they have added 2FA for the cloud but Cognos does not explicitly support it. It would be beneficial if Cognos adds 2FA support with third party tools, LDAP or the cloud....
    over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

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