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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    Add columnar indexes to Informix.

    Other databases e.g. DB2 have columnar index support builtin, we would like that in Informix as well. use case the same as for DB2.
    over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Add native "Cloud Events" standard support to IBM Mainframe software products similar to "OpenAPI" support in zOS Connect

    "Cloud Events" is becoming an industry standard for async messaging and event publishing similar to how Swagger/OpenAPI specification became an industry standard for synchronous APIs. This also adopts another standard "Open Telemetry" that enables...
    almost 2 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

    IBCS standard visualizations

    IBCS is a well known reporting standard, especially among people working in Controlling. They are used to standardized reports and require the same type of visualizations to be available in Cognos Analytics. Moreover, such visualizations are avail...
    almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

    Freeze panes to lock some rows and columns and allow the other to scroll

    To keep an area of a worksheet visible while you scroll to another area of the worksheet (to lock specific rows and columns in place, like Excel). It would be very useful in case of large tables in order to facilitate the users in exploring the co...
    almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

    Planning Analytics PowerPoint Addin

    With complete integration, users do not have to recreate charts and table in powerpoint. Users simply login and refresh the sheets. Additionally, with true integration, charts and labels will not deform when the objects are stretch or shrunk just ...
    almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

    Allow creation of table with column definition WITH DEFAULT CURRENT DATE - x DAYS

    We have a requirement to create some new tables, where we load a CSV file in every day. The CSV file contains information from the IMS Performance Analyzer Tool, and is always 2 days behind the current date. It would be nice to have the option to ...
    about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

    Prevent copying of data modules

    We want to allow a user to use a data module in Reporting perspective but he should not be able to copy the data module. On the copied data module the user is the owner and has full permissions. It is not possible to prevent copying of data module...
    about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

    Create ISO standard function to replace systools.JSON_update

    We would like to have a ISO standard function to replace systools.JSON_UPDATE. If we have this all JSON functions will be owned by SYSIBM and we will not have to grant any explicit permissions to the systools JSON functions. this is will simplify ...
    over 6 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

    Dashboards on Framework models that have prompts

    Dashboards don't work with framework models that have prompts. We use a prompt in the model because the database has a slowly changing dimension. Without the prompt the user gets duplicate records and way too much data. Our workaround is to build ...
    almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

    Entry Macros In Persona UI

    The Admin UI supports Entry Macro functions, which perform some action on the record based on fields pulled from an input spec. This functionality is not visible in the Persona UI, which means that less technical users which would be using the Per...
    4 months ago in Product Master 0 Planned for future release

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