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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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Consistent Set Behavior in PAfE: Enable Dropdown for Unnamed Sets Too

Dear IBM Planning Analytics Team, I wanted to share feedback on an inconsistent behavior in PAfE reports regarding sets, which affects usability for many users. Current Behavior: For a named set, clicking a cell directly shows a dropdown list of e...
12 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

OpenTelemetry

Please develop an OpenTelemetry Interface for DB2, so that at least on a top level, DB calls can be traced. Ideally, it could be brokwn down to more detail.
12 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Identifying Real Users When Using a Service Account API Key

Currently, when using a service account API key, all threads are created under the "service account user," which prevents distinguishing the actual end user who initiated each thread. We propose adding support for passing user identification metad...
26 days ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

Allow security menu group rights to be imported

Customer received internal audit comment with >4000 comments for their existing 41 users in Controller and needs to make adjustments to the security group limitations. However, it is too tedious to edit manually. They are requesting enhancement...
15 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Enable discard reorganizations on catalog history tables.

Enabling historization for certain catalog tables can result in very large tables that can be difficult to purge, particularly if they are in LOCKSIZE ROW and without LOCK ESCALATION, as is the case, for example, with the SYSIBM.SYSTABSPACESTATS_H...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Fix 'Pack LRSN field' description on help panel ALAZT780

From the Tutorial , option '78 LOAD expert options' the description of the 'Pack LRSN field' is incorrect."It does not change the definition of the target header column (if used), which is still a CHAR(12) field, but would contain only the packed ...
3 days ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Request for a plugin to address the lockout issue. To be implemented included in FP3 Patch delivery

This new RFE has been requested by the IBM Dev Team. Reference https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/SPCS-I-1113__;!!Jkho33Y!jDQwS2syU1P26kiq9Pqd2MGED4qxhSXCiN4gZsyyO2Z-zpfFnTNMScAaj75qeJFe4dspTQVNgkf4mZJ0D2L83g$ "For plugin lock...
3 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Add millisecond to DTLRPT time field

The detail in the DTLRT include the time as hh.mm.ss but missing the milliseconds. This is import when we investigate the sequence of events of two processes or between sysplexes. (Replication Exceptions). One millisecond could make a difference.
3 days ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Increase width of GENRPT and SUMREPT

These reports are only 80 bytes wide. GENRPT: the report could be wider to accommodate a wider table name of 30 characters.Or, If an option could be added to produce a one line report, meaning for every table per URID, the report will be 240 chara...
3 days ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted

Increase length of Table name on all reports

On all DTLRPT, DTLSUMR, GENRPT, SUMREPT the table name length is 18 characters and overflow to next line. Since V8 of DB2, the table name was extended to VARCHAR(128). When creating a program to read any of these reports, one has to include extra ...
3 days ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 0 Submitted