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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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11.2 alter home page to Team Content Globally

There is a desire by customers to alter the home page for all users to be the Team Content page in 11.2. However, they can only alter to a report or dashboard. The user individually can alter, so the capability is there, it just needs to be exposed.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Add saved report outputs to search

Add existing saved report outputs to Cognos Search. They should be indexed and made available so contents of generated HTML-, Excel- PDF-, csv- and xml-files can be found via Cognos Search. There should also be an option to enable/disable search w...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New DB2z "LOCKMAXCANCEL" tablespace characteristic - cancel thread when N locks have been reached

Suggest a new parameter for the TABLESPACE definition (perhaps named "LOCKMAXCANCEL"). LOCKMAXCANCEL This would allow you to specific a number that represent the maximum number of locks that can be acquired for the tablespace at which point the th...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Kafka connector : Add the functionality to read Kafka message headers in the stage

Add the functionality to read Kafka message headers in the stage. Accessing the Kafka message header allows specifying the nature of the message detail.
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Jupyter Notebook Integration: online library visualizations (like plotly) not available in Reports and Dashboards

All users of Jupyter Notebook integration in CA will benefit for enhanced visualization and data science functions provided by R. online libraries like plotly.js are working in Jupyter Notebooks itself but not working/not displayed when used in Da...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Ability to Control data mapping into Read Only fields (Fields that are read only due to calculations)

Currently, when a field was made read only due to calculation ( ie.. Using the field in the set operation of a calculation), When we use fastmap to load data into that field, it can't be overridden. This seems to be accurate from a perspective tha...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Support for Kafka "Client-Side Field Level Encryption" in Apply for Kafka

Confluent had released Client-Side Field Level Encryption to their on-prem offering as early access similar to the support they had for Confluent Cloud. We like to make use of this feature to secure our sensitive data. Can IBM add this support in ...
11 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Allow Encrypted Connection for IBM Debug Tool and Unified Debugger

Reviewing the connection with the Db2 Unified debugger, it was determined it was not using an encrypted port. All tools (mainframe or otherwise) should support full encryption over ATL-TLS.
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Hide the criticality and the due date field for Workflows

The criticality and the due date fields are not always used by the customer. There is no way to hide these fields because when they appear on the UI they confuse the end user. And this confusion actually hurts the zero training UI stance of OpenPa...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Not under consideration

Capture Remote Host & Remote IP for all activities

In the user activity logs. The Remote Host & Remote IP is only captured for the successfull login events. These are not being captured for the failed login attempts and for the logout attempts. From a security prespective, it is very important...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Is a defect