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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

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    Enable customers running 24/7 to create unique indexes

    Our Internet and Mobile applications are used 24/7 and we do not have any batch windows nor any maintenance windows. When creating new indexes on existing tables the a CREATE INDEX operation generates an unwanted outage when created with DEFER NO....
    about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Future consideration

    Advanced Drill Behaviour in Full Interactivity Mode

    Advanced drill behaviour is disabled for fully interactive mode because of which,unable to assign level labels and users are getting confused about the level on which they are presentUnable to drill down on data points in chart
    over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

    Ability to paste '-' characters as 0.

    0 values formatted as a '-' in Excel cannot be pasted into Planning Analytics. This causes a spreading error. Users often format 0 values as a '-'. It would be helpful if Planning Analytics could interpret '-' as a 0 on paste.
    3 months ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

    Light Theme in CP4D

    A light theme for cloud pak for data and be activated/deactivated easily in the settings. Taking into consideration the font colors and background themes and colors.
    3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data 0 Submitted

    Turn on reclaimable storage without dropping/recreating the tablespaces

    After a migration from db2 9.5 to 10.1, several days passed, and we reached the maximum size of a DMS tablespace of 4K. We moved one table to a different tablespace, but still noticed that the free pages were equal to 0. We tried to execute the al...
    almost 11 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

    Ability to add a URL to a Dashboard

    Would like the ability to add a URL to a Cognos Analytics Dashboard (currently not a capability in v11 RP5).
    about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

    WCA4Z to support ASSEMBLER language

    Lot of mainframe applications are written in ASSEMBLER language. Clients are interested in modernizing those applications.
    about 2 years ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1

    Formatting Overlay Cube

    I have a cube with a "Measure" dimension, which has elements like "Amount", "Variance %", etc. It also has a "Scale" dimension, which has elements like "Raw", "Millions", etc. I'm trying to achieve the following outcome: Amount, Raw = #,##0.000000...
    over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

    Dashboards to handle prompt macros from FM packages

    Some framework models use prompt macro's in the query subjects for filtering and security purposes. These do not work properly in dashboarding. #prompt()# works in the dashboard page but if you put a data item in the filters section at the top of ...
    over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

    Hide user input option in sub action in assistant steps

    I am building an AI assistant and in that I am using many skill based actions in different steps appropriately as sub-actions. I am able to pass my variables to these skill based actions and receiving the response which I am using in further steps...
    about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

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