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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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Use a value as a parameter to which you can assign a color thru the whole dashboard or BI environment

When you move within reports and/or to a Dashboard. It would be great if the same color would ALWAYS stays with the same item (Product, KPI, etc....) Even as simple KPI Answers as Yes , Very Likely , Sometimes or No . We can assign a number at the...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

DB2 for z/OS: Ability to Retrieve Output SP Parameters Into Global Variables in Dynamic CALL

Add the ability to retrieve output and inout parameter values into global variables in dynamic stored procedure calls. Need this functionality for DB2 for z/OS. Apparently, it already exists for DB2 LUW.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 8 Future consideration

Suitable Replacement for SNAP_GET_APPL_V95

SNAP_GET_APPL_V95 got introduced with Db2 9.5 but is deprecated in actual versions/releases. MON_GET_CONNECTION is declared as the replacement for this ‘old’ procedure, but the scope of the replacement procedure is different! Thus MON_GET_CONNECTI...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Let Db2 REST return alternative and more useful JSON keys

Db2 REST today return JSON keys that are hard to consume if you for example use JSON Binding layer (aka JSON-B). The reason behind that is that the JSON keys returned don't always follow the common naming standards that require you to use lowerCam...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Idle session timeout should be dynamic for active session.

Currently, the length of time until a user's session expires is controlled by the TOKEN_EXPIRY_TIME parameter. But its not considered the active session correctly if user working on multiple browser tabs. For example, if TOKEN_EXPIRY_TIME is set ...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Increase supported ADMIN_MODE_USERS by moving list from onconfig to table

Parameter ADMIN_MODE_USERS handy during migrations. the ability to make the database available for a subset of users is great for post migration validation. However the length of the field (127 bytes) is a limitation that ends up being somewhat mi...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Improve jobs options and features

Better usability and improve productivity Hi , i would like to suggest some improvements regarding jobs on cognos. i have a similar scenario: users have at disposal some views to see the results of prelaunched reports. those reports are built with...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Add Metadata to Cloud Object Storage file output

Saving a file in Cloud Storage creates a corresponding "outputDescriptor" xml file with some metadata information of the report execution. This Infos should be saved direct in the User-defined object metadata attributes of the S3 stored object. Ev...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Support S3 Buckets with Object Locks

Db2 already has an integration that supports directly writing/reading to/from to S3 buckets. Unfortunately this integration currently does not support buckets that use object locks. In such a case the following error pops up in the diagnostic log:...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Automated process to update global parameters

Global parameters are very useful for different scenarios especially for giving users the right time frame (e.g. last invoice date, last year to consider etc.). Currently there is no option to update global parameters in an automated way. Idea: De...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration