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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.

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Add output format option to drill through in dashboards

Currently there is no option to specify a target report output format in drill throughs created in Dashboards. And to make things worse, when a default output format is set on the target report (ex. to run in Excel format) this is completely ignor...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 3 Future consideration

Have an option to provide a minimal error (with reference code) without any detail, in the user-facing UI.

Currently the minimal errors (as opposed to Detailed Errors) still give a great deal of information in the Stack Trace. It would be good for security if we could opt to have the user given a very minimal message "Error occurred - Please contact yo...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Future consideration

Capture all error SQL Codes regardless of where it was generated

According to the manual Query Monitor operates ‘inline’ with SQL related execution that takes place on the host. Certain database processing activities engage ‘off-host’ components, which are called ‘distributed’ or DRDA applications. Once a trans...
9 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide compatability between releases and PTF levels

We are a large multi system multi SYSPLEX environment with a minimum of 5 9's uptime availability across the board. Therefore, we normally do not upgrade anything across all LPAR'S of a SYSPLEX at the same time and certainly do not take down all o...
10 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 1 Under review

Configure PaceMaker for Db2/HADR automation using "rsync" as an option for "db2crm" script.

Ability to configure the entire PaceMaker cluster for Db2 HADR without using ftp or scp. For security reasons, some client environments do not allow the use of "ftp" or "scp". The cluster creation option accepts "rsync" as an option instead of "sc...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

CP4D - Would like to be able to delete multiple jobs at the same time in the GUI

While the asset browser now allows selection of multiple assets for deletion in most places, the "job" view has no such selection and jobs must be selected one at a time and then deleted. The GUI should offer the same type of selection boxes for j...
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Extend the Persona UI to include the functionality for creating user IDs/roles/acg

Extend the Persona UI to include the functionality for creating user IDs, currently available only in the Admin UI. This enhancement will help reduce reliance on the Admin UI and offer a more unified user management experience.
9 months ago in Product Master 1 Planned for future release

Login prompt option is not visible when we are using OIDC/SAML provider

When logging in using an OIDC provider, username and password fields in the UI are not visible to facilitate login for technical users. Generally for the personal login, OIDC should just login without prompting username and password. But we need t...
9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Calculated members in Dashboard

Hi, we asking for support calculated members in Dashboard component as it is support in Report
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Accessibility Enhancement: Provide accessible name and accessible description for scroll bar arrows on visualizations

Requesting to add accessible name and accessible description for the intent of the scroll bar arrows on the visualization. The screen tip indicating scroll up or scroll down when hovering over the arrows will enable screen reader audience to under...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted