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 ALTER TABLE xxx COLUMN yyy SET NOT NULL

    The ability to change nearly everything about a column is really cool in Db2. Sadly, the one thing that you cannot easily change is the NULLability of any given column. This is definitely a requirement all over the place and currently can only be ...
    6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Implementation of permission settings on tabs in the Cognos Analytics dashboard

    We have a customer requirement to make data available in a Cognos Analytics dashboard. However, there are different groups of users who should see different content. Therefore, it is necessary to use permissions to show or hide specific dashboard ...
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted
    249 VOTE

    Rerun schedule

    Sometimes it is important to be able to rerun a schedule. Cognos 10 had the funktionality in my activities and schedules
    about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

    Pipelines in Next Gen DataStage requires compilation in a protected environment ( Production environment )

    Next Gen DataStage: At present, pipelines require compilation in a protected environment (Production). This process updates the last modified date on the log, which raises concerns about tracking changes and identifying what modifications were int...
    about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

    Issue an appropriate message instead of a dump in case of 00E20015 occurrence

    A clear DSN... message indicating the problem ASCB is more helpful than a dump. The asid (in R2) could be already another ASCB, so this is ambiguous. The dump could be supressed in my opinion. We have such a lot of cases in which we are forced to ...
    about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

    Default settings for PAW environment

    Currently if the client has custom settings, these colours/fonts/sizes needs to be applied to each widget (taking time and a lot of maintenance). There is also a risk that if users create ad-hoc dashboards, that they use different settings than th...
    12 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

    Add Python 3.14 binary wheel distributions for CPLEX

    Add Python 3.14 binary wheel distributions for CPLEX The Python Package Index only contains distributions of CPLEX up to and including 3.12 (see https://pypi.org/project/cplex/#files). Please upload wheels for Python 3.14 (yes - let's skip 3.13 en...
    28 days ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Submitted

    Add support for custom roles, or create a role with the customer actions

    For client: In one of the IAM Access Groups in our IBM Cloud account we want to enable read-only access to the watsonx.orchestrate instance by enabling the following components: watsonx-orchestrate.assistant.read watsonx-orchestrate.skill.read...
    28 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

    Backup in V12 - allow to exclude files/folders

    In Planning Analytics V12, when an administrator requests a backup, it includes all server files, as well as the contents of File Space (which can be browsed using File Explorer).However, this area can contain many files that are not required to b...
    3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration
    244 VOTE

    Ability to freeze column headers in reporting crosstabs

    The feature in dashboard crosstabs to freeze column headers is excellent, and should be replicated as well in the reporting environment. This is a long standing user request that is very difficult to achieve today.
    about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration

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