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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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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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Allow to execute stored procedures from the Explore Objects list or RUN SQL

Application developers and DBAs execute stored procedures directly from Data Studio, Toad for DB2, DBeaver etc. interfaces but it is not possible in DB2 Admin Foundation therefore not very helpfull.
about 2 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Planning Analytics - Identify which PAW books are being used

Across large environments and a large user base, many PAW books will be developed and being produced over time. In current stage information is available when the PAW book has been modified the last time. Understanding when the PAW book was access...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Authorization assignment to user-roles on PAW book tabs

In PAW there is a specific assignment of right for PAW books. For our use case it would be beneficial to also be able to assign tabs inside a book to different user roles thus showing and hiding tabs depending on the user rights. This would enable...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Usage Statics for Workspace Assets

Would like to capture usage statistic of dashboards and other PAW assets, specifically last time accessed, last accessed by. Ideally, we'd capture all usage statistics over a set time period and have the ability to reset those counters.
10 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Handling multiple locations of backups

Current limit allows for only 32 paths to be provided for running a restore. That is a problem if full backups and all the differential ones are run in multiple streams and in different paths. For example you have a full backup in 16 streams and t...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Certificate authentication for DB2 LUW

In a heterogeneous environment, certificate authentication enables access to numerous services; among other things, it should also be possible for DB2 clients to connect to a DB2 database and to grant the user identified by the certificate the app...
10 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Improve the HADR commands for pureScale setups

Make it easier and more intuitive to operate HADR in a pureScale environment by adding "AT MEMBER X" to the START HADR command. For example: START HADR FOR DATABASE SAMPLE AS STANDBY AT MEMBER 1 That could have two functions: If there is current...
19 days ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

Enable the use of parameter sets in SQL Data Quality Rules

It is requested that the SQL text of a data quality sql rule can be expressed using parameter sets that can be set at the project level, similar to what is possible in DataStage or an equivalent possibility that allows for identical rules, but the...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

New Grid view field to update text fields (may be enabled in Nested View)

As a user I want an ability to update data directly within text fields in a grid view, similar to the functionality of Excel. This would eliminate the need to open individual records each time fields such as description or comments require modific...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review
338 VOTE

Show list of recently used data packages when creating new report

We have a large list of Framework Manager packages to pick from in our Cognos production environment and our users rely on the functionality currently in Cognos 10 to select from a list of recently used packages. Cognos Analytics does not offer th...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration