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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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Ability to re-create views and procedures without dependent objects being dropped

Some objects in a database often depend on other. As an example, if there is a view, another view can be built upon it.Private and public synonyms can be created for those views, and permissions given to various users on those views.If the first v...
almost 13 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Add back support for IMS JDBC driver to Cognos Analytics 12

We are a strong Z customer, and we bought IBM Cognos Analytics along with watsonx Code Assistant for Z (WCA4Z) because we need to do reporting from our IMS databases.We don't want to buy buy another Connector application at the moment because of a...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

ITC tables for pureScale

ITC are very useful to have table that have large batch deletes on it. Then space reclaim is a quite easy and fast task using REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS ONLY.
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enable developers to manage SAP Connections in DataStage Administrator for SAP and DataStage Administrator for SAP BW clients

Request to make users with Developer role possible to manage (add/modify/remove) SAP Connections in DataStage Administrator for SAP and DataStage Administrator for SAP BW client.
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

externalize generic runstats information for XML columns in SYSCAT.COLUMNS

Currently RUNSTATS does not store generic statistical results for XML columns in SYSCAT.COLUMNS - as it does for other data types -, like numnulls etc.This information in SYSCAT.COLUMNS is used for administrative, automated tasks worldwide, but ca...
about 3 years ago in Db2 3 Not under consideration

re-aasign new package to report from properties

Re-point a report to an alternative package from the properties dialogue
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Add ability to apply Style Picker formatting to multiple columns at the same time

When trying to use the Style Picker tool, there seems to be no way to apply the style to multiple cells/columns/rows at a time since the 'Style picker' icon disappears from the pop-up tool bar once you CTRL+Click to select multiple cells
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow multiple File System Root Locations in case of failure in Cognos Config > Global Config > Archive Location File System Root

In events of failure to reach File System Root Location for report deliveries, allow multiple File System Root Locations (list in order) to be saved so Cognos can point to another File System Location automatically, if one fails it goes to second ...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Support combination of MIG and DCGM in GPUs with LSF

I got confirmation from dev team. Unfortunately, the combination of MIG and DCGM is not supported yet. So, for now, you cannot get job GPU information if MIG is enabled. You can raise an RFE on this matter so we can keep track of the request.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1

Copy or export from dashboards

Requesting additional features for dashboards. Users are not able to export data or copy data from the dashboard page.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release