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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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Provide an automate way to alter catalog copies after Db2 catalog changes (CATMAINT)

We using catalog copies in Db2 Administration tool. We have created 7 copies (1 for each day to get one week back). Every night we load data from the Db2 catalog in one of these catalog copies. This works good since years but we looking for a more...
7 months ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Resend workflow notification if assignee gets updated

When the User field that corresponds to the Assignee on a workflow is changed they must use the refresh button (curly arrow) on the workflow to update the Assignee (as advised by support previously). This works as advised and the object then appea...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Delivered

Request to enable the clearance of asymmetric MDX views when data processing.

Asymmetric MDX represent the general case of a data set in PA, an Asymmetric view is typically delivered with and MDX filter. The ViewZeroOut function currently does not support the clearance of MDX views that contain a filter statement. The lack ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Reset default "Send report by email" to send to user's email account

From Cognos 8, 10 and through Cognos 11.1.6, the default action when a user ran with "Send report by email" was to send to the user but in 11.1.7 Cognos changed to necessitating the user to select "Edit details" to populate their address by defaul...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Dashboards on Framework models that have prompts

Dashboards don't work with framework models that have prompts. We use a prompt in the model because the database has a slowly changing dimension. Without the prompt the user gets duplicate records and way too much data. Our workaround is to build ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Make Db2 Connect ready for the future (which is already here)

Hi IBM Community, hi IBM Support, as part of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux version change, at the moment we have to set up many new server systems for the application software we support.Our application software relies heavily on DB2 and so the IBM D...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Dashboard data tray available in Read mode

The data tray is only available in Edit mode. Often users want to be able to see the numbers behind the visual. Currently the user either has to switch to edit mode.We dont want basic users seeing the complexity of dashboard authoring tools just t...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0

new DBlink for cplex OPL optimization studio

Dear developers. I thought that this idea either was already posted or perhaps is considered inside other idea related with ODX, but anyway I do want to ensure that next enhancement to cplex optimization studio get done: until opl 12.6.3. the fetc...
over 7 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 6 Delivered

Ability to re-create views and procedures without dependent objects being dropped

Some objects in a database often depend on other. As an example, if there is a view, another view can be built upon it.Private and public synonyms can be created for those views, and permissions given to various users on those views.If the first v...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Need to calculation a summary value for calculated ratios based on calculations and not by average in Dashboard

If we create any ratio calculations in the dashboard by default the resulting value is summed up, which is wrong. Also, if we change the summary property to average then it is giving a value which is nearly right but we are not getting the exact v...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration