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 updates to HADR Standbys

    Allow for updates to be issued on HADR standbys like Informix allows. Here is a extract from the informix manuals: You can enable applications connected to secondary servers to update database data. If you enable write operations on a secondary se...
    over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

    Send count(distinct ... for ...) to database when DB2_COUNT_DISTINCT_SCALAG (DB2 11.5.5) is active (Cognos 11.1.7)

    We have thousands of complex reports with expressions like that: "count(distinct ... for ...)". Cognos (DQM) uses a workaround to push expressions like that to the database (row_number+count). This workaround works only in simple cases but not in ...
    almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

    Fallback to Db2 when IDAA replication is lagging

    When Db2 detects that IDAA replication is lagging under the integrated synchronization process, the query waits for replication to catch up before being served from the accelerator. We need an option controlled by a package parm or zparm that will...
    4 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

    Adding Release Ownership Event to list of PAW Plan Events to trigger TI process

    Currently there is a list of 6 events that can be configured in a Planning Analytics Workspace Plan to run a TI process. One of those available events is when a user Takes Ownership. We have found this helpful, but would like to trigger a similar ...
    4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    Need a confirmation dialog with the list config changes made when users save Administration --> Configuration

    Need a confirmation dialog with the list config changes made when users save Administration --> Configuration We had a recent issue (TS020374378) in which one one of the Administration settings got changed unintentionally and we lost the UI acc...
    4 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Under review

    cancel this please, opened in error - Provide full symbol support in UMS both in the web page and Yaml file

    It would be helpful in our deployment if we could simply change a system symbol when upgrading/applying patches. Also, having the ability to specify host names in the subsystem registration function would allow for 'hands off' DR testing where tod...
    4 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

    Customize the Relationship explorer(explore Relationship) for a Business term/Data class to filter on published and unpublished assets (after assigned in enrichment)

    Currently, when we open the "Related Content" tab for a business term, we only see published assets. However, when we explore relationships for a business term or data class, we can see both published and unpublished asset columns in the relations...
    4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

    "Plan sidebar" hidden by default when opening a PAW Application

    When a user opens a PAW Application, the Plan sidebar is show and occupies 1/3 of the screen. Many customers have requested to set this to be hidden by default becasue it is not comfortable to have to close the side bar manually every time a user ...
    4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

    The product must encrypt all stored user passwords

    When a user creates a batch job from QMF zClient, their credentials are stored in plain text (unencrypted) in the following path within a QMF Server Standalone installation: /.../Application Data/IBM/QMF Server/sdata/[userID]/user/.storage Specifi...
    4 months ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

    Commentary enablement against Controller Web reporting

    In supplement to BACC-I-548, can Controller Web reporting also seek to improve the functionality for commentary capture. Users typically want to provide commentary on Controller at a summarised level, not an account entry level. For example, comme...
    4 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

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