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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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PAW Security for instances

As both a developer and a user, I would like to see only relevant instances displayed in the side panel of PAW. However, I do not want to have to manually select the instances I wish to view. Instead, I would prefer that this be managed by an admi...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

execute unload on store procedures

it would be wonderful, to be able to execute unload directly on store procedures, and not have to do an system call, so it we a native unload of data
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted

Convert UTS PBG workfile TSs for DGTT or SORT only without DROP/RECREATE

Starting with function level 13508 we can use workfile separation for DGTTs and SORT. We want to prevent that we have to drop and recreate all the existing UTS PBG workfiles which will be by default used for DGTT (USAGE= ). Wouldn't it be possible...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Db2 Encryption at Rest breaks backup deduplication

For the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Encryption at Rest is mandatory for many databases. Since we have turned on Encryption at Rest, data deduplication during backups is not working anymore. We always have to save the full 15+ TB...
6 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Under review

Real-Time Reporting Capability in IBM Cognos Analytics

I would like to request an enhancement in IBM Cognos Analytics to support real-time data streaming for reporting and dashboards. Currently, Cognos does not natively support second-by-second real-time updates, making it challenging to use for scena...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 5 Not under consideration
120 VOTE

Resolve a restriction that CACHE DYN STABILITY function can not use with CONCENTRATE WITH LITERALS option.

Customer environment Db2 V12 <- DRDA -> Db2connect/JDBC(IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ type 2) Server side.(JDBC Type2 is used) Windows server: - WebSphere BASE 9.0.0 (Windows2016) - Db2client / IBM Data Server Runtime Client V11.1...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Enahncement to DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT setting

Regarding the use of DB2_DEFER_MEMORY_COMMIT=ON. This env variable will defer memory commitment, asynchronously in the background, for faster completion of ACTIVATE DATABASE. This helps to improve the database activation for large memory systems w...
12 months ago in Db2 1 Under review
260 VOTE

Cognos Analytics / Dashboard / Data Player : Properties to control play speed and delay

Data play at times runs too fast for the charts to keep up. results in choppy playback. Add properties to have interval delay, and loop delay
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data gate instance be able to write on Ozone S3 Object Storage of Cloudera (Data Gate for watsonx)

The client want to adopt the Ozone S3 Object Storage of Cloudera to also store data synced from Data Gate for watsonx so that the two platforms can coexist sharing this common layer without requires deploy a new Object Storage class (e.g. Storage ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Under review

ApplicationSecurity entries are lost when existing Websheets are replaced via PAfE

We control user access to applications/folders and individual web sheets in TM1Web via the system cube ApplicationSecurity (dimensions Groups & Applications). This defines which rights each user group has for which web sheets. It often happens...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted