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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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REORG DISCARD for utility-history-tables

We tried to establish a Housekeeping for the utility-history-tables.The first appoach was to execute a REORG DISCARD to remove old data from the two tables. This is not possible, because the DISCARD OPTION is not applicable for catalog or director...
10 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

DB2 utility should be protected in case of abend 878 - end of memory

Hello there, This is related to IBM case TS016981605. DB2 was not able to manage correctly 878 abend (end of virtual memory below 16M line). Because of that, we had troubles in our production environment. In this case, IBM suggested to require a "...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration
117 VOTE

Render Cognos maps in PDF report format

Currently (CA 11.0.7), maps included as a visualization in a report can only be rendered when report is run in HTML format. If the report is run in any other format (i.e. PDF, Excel, CSV..) the maps will never be rendered (never displayed) Please ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Operational Risk Management OpenPages module - Inquiry Regarding Control and Evaluation Features Update

LA POSTE client expresses the desire to have the ability to conduct sampling checks through control grids and evaluations. In the absence of being able to duplicate the control grid for each sample to be checked, we have explored the possibility o...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

User can share customized dashboard panel with another user

We have users that want to create a dashboard panel which is more focused on their country: e.g. issues assigned to the 4 different managers across their country. This is not something we can make available for every user because of the specific a...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Deferred ALTERs can be materialized on a subset of partitions

We have a 2048 partitioned Tablespace and need to ALTER the keyranges. Afterwards a REORG on the complete object is needed. We want a piecemeal tactic for the REORG: All ALTERs are in SYSPENDINGDDL, and a REORG on partition level can materialize a...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Button to Download Data from Cube Drill to Database

The problem raised by the client is that there is no way to prevent users from downloading the information extracted from the drill of a Planing Analytics cube to an external database. They want to block this download because the data is sensitive...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects.

There needs to be a Default setting for font effects. The font dialogue box has Default options for Family, Size, Weight and Style yet does not have a Default option for effects (Underline, Overline, Line through). This makes it difficult to turn ...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Dimension Editing in PAW needs more Safeguards to Prevent Catastrophic changes

It is far to eash to "corrupt" a dimension in PAW. Others have noted that defaulting to dimension editing when double-clicking could allow admins to inadvertently make changes. The warning about immediately applying changes is helpful. My specific...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Under review

Ability to customize the stage reminder email body

Useful: Ability to customize the stage reminder (scheduled reminder) email body, standard email body content doesn't satisfy customer. They want custom reminder emails just like the notification on the workflow action. Benefit: Stage reminder (sch...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 4 Under review