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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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Allow Informix to accept Non PAM aware clients to connect when using PAM PASSWORD mode

Standard Informix Authentication on unix will perform a getpwnam() call to retrieve the encrypted shadow password from the OS, it will then compare an encrypted version of the password supplied by the client against this, and if they match, authen...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Launch Report Studio through URL along with embedded package to use

Unable to launch Report Studio with an embedded package, which we were able to do in Cognos 10.2.2. Clients are given the ability to create their own reports by defining profile and package (restrctive) in the URL to launch Report Studio. We do no...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add capability of using GEN parameters in change management batch interface procedure (GOCCM)

We had below requirement from the user: We have an existing column in an existing table that we are adding a new RI to a new domain table. If we issue the compare normally using object comparison tool, we get both the table create DDL and the new ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Convert xlsx files to csv as an option to Allow file upload

In PAW, the recent option to Allow file upload on a button would require users to upload their files in .csv format, meaning they have to convert their .xlsx or .xlsm files locally and then drag and drop the files in the file upload screen. Altern...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

PAW Cube Viewer - Hide Title Section

When building books for end user use it would be good to be able to have an option to hide the Title section of the viewer leaving only the Row and Column section visible, this would enable users to work with the filtering functionality of rows an...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

[AI Agent Routing] Presenting multiple routing options to users

We have projects leveraging tens of assistants for user request handling. No matter how those assistants are grouped and descriptions are well written, there will always be situation where we'll need more disambiguation. The idea that we are propo...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Add Zeppelin notebooks

zeppelin notebooks have a number of nice features like built in graph capability, and it also lets you mix multiple interpreters into a single notebook. Yes you can do a lot of this with jupyter, but there will be those that have a large number of...
over 8 years ago in Watson Studio 3 Not under consideration

Enhance ALTER of STOGROUP

Would like additional flexibility to change storage options without taking outages. First situation, we had a special storage group defined with a specific STORCLAS that was used to isolate a specific subset of data. That isolation is no longer ne...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Flexibility is needed during MDM/Match360 reconciliation—it should not have to wait for the CCS CR to reach a completed state.

We often need to make CCS-related changes outside of the custom resource (CR) because certain configurations are not yet exposed at the CR level. This requires placing the CCS CR in maintenance mode. If MDM reconciliation waits for the CCS CR to r...
9 months ago in Master Data Management 2 Submitted

DB2 LUW Compatibility for Rocky Linux Operating System

Rocky Linux has proven to be a reliable and stable Linux operating system, supported by most database (RDBMS and NoSQL) software vendors for running database services. Aligning with this operating environment would be cost-effective and ensure a r...
9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 3 Not under consideration