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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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Allow disabling Save as on reports and dashboards

Allow team administrators to disable Save as functionality on specific reports and dashboards for specific users / groups / roles. Otherwise, it's not possible to secure a package - even if it's invisible, users with Dashboards and Reports capabil...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Add support for visual totals to Dynamic Cubes

In a hierarchy with multiple levels (say Region and Country for example) if a user only has security granted for certain countries when Region is pulled into the report there are a couple ways the aggregates could be shown. Dynamic Cubes by design...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Ability to Update Banner/Titles

Requesting the ability to update the banner/titles within the Planning Analytics Workspace interface. At the top of the screen, there is the logo in the top left and the title "IBM Planning Analytics Workspace. Speed. Agility. Foresight". We would...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

For online REORG, create parameter to set RC=4 when DRAIN fails

I am creating a scheduled job to perform regular REORGs of the Db2 Catalog. I am generating a list of catalog objects and feeding it to LISTDEF and then using ITEMERROR,SKIP I am using extremely gentle DRAIN settings...DRAIN_WAIT of 2 or 3 seconds...
11 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve XML length/sizes determination

One of the frequent questions I receive from application teams, when dealing with XML data is : What is the max size of my xml documents in database ? What is the average size of them ? Today, Db2 has no easy answer for that.. the LENGTH() functio...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Truncate incompatible with online backup command

Db2 online backup for warehouse environments running longer depending on database size, online backup command have a lock incompatibility with Truncate table command which is says backup is not fully online. This should be one essential feature th...
about 8 years ago in Db2 5 Not under consideration

DB Script to purge entire data set

When DEV is refreshed with PROD data, Clients would not want to expose their confidential data on a Non-PROD environment. To some extent there are purge/anonymization APIs but it is object/resource specific. It would be better to have a DB script ...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Implement pagination in the HTML reports

Client requirements is to see pagination in HTML report output as highlighted in the attached screenshot(refer to bottom right highlighted section). When the output spans across multiple pages, user should be able to navigate which page they want ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

IIDR CDC for Db2 for i (AS400) as a Source is not replicating updates and moving forward.

Hello Team, We have observed that IIDR CDC for Db2 for i (AS400) is not replicating the updates to target. We are getting below message in Subscription Events. *********************************************************************** Type: Diagnosti...
11 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Needs more information

Integer Increment Function on Workflow

We are trying to use the Task Focused UI Workflow to increment an Integer field as an action on one of the stages. This is a common function usually handled via a Trigger. I can see that the increment Date field works with a set number of days. Th...
almost 7 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Not under consideration