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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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Excel Style Column Title Filters (in Cognos and upon Export to Excel)

We would like to see this column title header filter functionality demonstrated in this custom extension created by Veracitiz become a standard feature in Cognos Analytics reporting. See demo here: Creating Custom Dropdown with Flexi-Search in Cog...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

External Table USING Options

Need to be able to create external table objects using all the "USING" options when writing to the file. The best example is that (VAR)CHAR type objects need to be written with "quoted" values (e.g., 'ABC",'DEF' written to the file instead of ABC,...
10 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Under review

Edit excel in Mac plataform

We have a limitation in the function of edit microsoft files integrated with Openpages GRC that actually is permited only in the Microsoft/Windows plataform https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/openpages/8.3.0?topic=enhancements-opening-microsoft-office-fi...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Logical Files in QPFRDATA should be secured with AUTL QPMCCDATA

Hi, on IBMi Collection services you have several file in QPFRDATA. Mostly all PF are secured with the AUTL QPMCCDATA. There are also some LF like: QAPMJOBL, QAPMSYSL, and QAPMPOOLL which are secured by AUTL: *NONE. Normally we add our user to the ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

PAW - View a small text base file in Drive Explorer

This used to be easy on the rich-layer, but with PAW and Drive Explorer - can we have a viewer for small text based files that you can add to favourites like txt/html/ps1/cfg ? It can also be a widget for a paw book like a frame that points to a f...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Optimize current implementation of S3 cloud storage

The current implementation of S3 cloud storage has some disadvantages. It's a "fire-and-forget" approach which has the following disadvantages in detail from our point of view: Files with the same name will be overwritten in S3. Idea: add a timest...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Use S3 for externalization of outputs

Our content stores (currently DB2) are growing through more and bigger outputs from reports although we have a rigid housekeeping. But in any case, we are limited to a certain content store size. And database storage is very expensive. File extern...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

PAW: upload or reuse tm1project file in Git repository integration to select objects

After doing a deployment of a bracnh in the test environment you often find that: some objects were missed as part of promotion package additional changes are required in the promoted objects after testing It would be great to not have to manually...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Kerberos authentication - ODBC driver - allow krb5.ini integration similar to JDBC driver for untrusted domains

Currently, JDBC driver allows an untrusted domain to connect to a target domain but providing configuration in a krb5.ini/krb5.conf file as to what the accessible kdc server is and the domain associated to that server. With an ODBC driver, there i...
5 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Rich Text Entry

OpenPages includes the option to configure Rich Text fields of various lengths, short (4K), medium (32K) and long (256K). Within the field, the user can format text which, for selected situations, enhances the content and readability of reports. T...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration