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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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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Report running Cancel dialogue window could have more value with additional options, such as switch format.

Report consumers often don't know that they can run a report in their preferred output format. Untrained consumers will typically run a report to HTML, wait for it to run, then use the run in Excel option. If a report takes a long time to run then...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Online change of indexes

We would like to be able to alter indexes as an online change, regardless of whether it is a duplicate index or a unique index (in the latter case it will often be the addition of include columns). We often have changes to indexes in connection wi...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

QMF v12 functions stopped working after Windows 11 upgrade

Client uses QMF for Workstation v12 under Windows 10 without errors. Client platform upgraded to Windows 11, now some underlying functions that worked on QMF v12 no longer works. Client needs help with determining if QMF needs patching (or version...
3 months ago in QMF for z/OS 4 Functionality already exists

More detail information at the different steps of a job

A report has been inserted 5 times in a job. Each report has different parameter values or output formats. The differences are not visible in the step overview. You have to check the step options for each step. Currently the step overview shows ty...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Search not showing all matching entries

Quite annoyingly, on several clients' systems we discovered that the default Search engine is not always finding the correct matches. I've researched further into this, and this occurs specifically for clients on a different locale than English. A...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Language of PAX interface

PAX plugin takes the setting from operating system. In my client's company, users in Germany have by default their Windows Display Language set to German and they cannot change it as they don't have administration access to their laptops. So then,...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Windows Db2-Runtime-Client with Certificate authentication: should also work without specifying sslClientLabel

Windows Db2-Runtime-Client with Certificate authentication: should also work without specifying sslClientLabel Today it is mandatory to define sslClientLabel (aka Friendly Name) if SSLClientKeystoredb value="GSK_MS_CERTIFICATE_STORE" is set. We h...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 3 Planned for future release

Exclude certain intercompany rules from reconciliation

In Controller Web, in the Intercompany tab, all intercompany rules are visible by default. However, most customers have IC rules which are only for elimination purpose and are not relevant for the reporters as they shouldn't be reconciled. The sol...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Under review

Delete vs Write vs Full

Within the permissions of an object, we now have a hierarchy of security -- Read, Run, Write and Full. In previous versions, we had 5 permissions - Read, Execute, Traverse, Write and Policy (still kind of have this in the admin piece) but... In al...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration