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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.

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User-Friendly Data or Event Alert Tool

Please add the ability to send an email or SMS alert based on a user-defined trigger, like a data-based alert. Have it send alerts or run + send reports to email or mobile device. The legacy Event Studio tool has more than enough functionality - b...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW should respect privileges granted to Roles/Groups and not require privileges to be granted explicitly to Users

This idea is for RE LUW, not RE z/OS. There does not appear to be an entry for RE LUW in the IBM Ideas portal. IBM L2 support suggested that I open the Idea under RE z/OS. While installing Db2 Recovery Expert for LUW, we received the following err...
11 months ago in Db2 0

Validation for Returns and Reversals in FTM CPS

Bank of Nova Scotia (aka Scotia Bank) in Canada is implementing IBM FTM CPS to support electronic payments processing compliant with Payments Canada Standard 005. According to the standard (Standard 005 - link), **certain fields marked with * or *...

Composite License Packaging for Simplified Allocation

Introduce a capability in IBM LSF License Scheduler to define a single package name that represents multiple license features. When this package is allocated, all underlying licenses are automatically allocated together. This would be similar to h...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Under review

Image resize that translates to Cognos Reports

When using the CKEditor in OpenPages, you can resize images using the corners. Unfortunately, when you run a Cognos report, the image shows in its original size as when it was uploaded. In order to make images the appropriate size for the PDF repo...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 0 Submitted

staged create index with focus on always on

We would like to create an index in Db2 for z/OS without interruption during ongoing operations. Idea is to get an option during create index to mark this index as "in creation". Such marked index would be ignored during BIND, REBIND and not maint...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Raise BUFND in DSNJLSR and associated log access modules

Performance in all services which read log records from the log copies or from archive log, e.g. DSN1LOGP, RECOVER, Online REORG, BACKOUT processing, Db2 restart and probably some more. Tests were already done for the log access via DSNJLSR and th...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Talend-spark ETL job support on watsonx.data Spark engine.

A customer is using Talend studio to develop and run ETL job that uses Apache Spark on CDH 7.1.7. It will be a plus point for watsonx.data to support integration with Talend use the watsonx.data Spark engine to run the same ETL job benefits - easy...
3 months ago in watsonx.data 3 Under review

Manage/view another users scheduled report/activities without using an Analytics Administrator license

There are hundreds of scheduled reports that are managed by departmental users. if the owners of the scheduled reports are unavailable and/or the schedules need to be re-run, The Activities screen lets them see the progress of their activities in ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

How to show the Report or folder description in the Cognos 11 portal

How to show the Report or folder description in the Cognos 11 portal (instead of has to go to the properties by clicking the ellipsis on right (3 dots). )? With Cognos 10 you were able to show the report description in the portal by setting prefer...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration