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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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Correctly Load Metadata and advise of any errors

I think this is a bug rather than an enhancement, but IBM Cognos Technical Support advised opening an enhancement request. Cognos Analytics 12 > Manage > Data Server Connections > {Data Server} > Assets > {Asset} > Load Metadata:...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

To resolve the backup failure issue caused by identical hostnames across IIAS appliances running in Docker containers.

Assigning unique hostnames to each IIAS appliance (or container) is essential because backup tools like EMC NetWorker rely on hostnames to identify and manage client systems. When multiple appliances use the same hostname, EMC NetWorker cannot dif...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 1 Submitted

Extend the filed for Temporary Dataset HLQ on the Subsystem Registration UI screen.

Currently the 'Temporary data set HLQ' field on the second page of the Subsystem Registration function is limited to 8 characters. Due to company naming standards this does not allow us enough space to specify an acceptable value for this name to ...
7 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

add format SQL and separate query block functionality that was in Data Studio

format SQL especially helpful to aid tuning. Functionality provided in Data Studio but missing in UMS - these options we along side import DGTT DDL
about 2 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

add statistics advisor reports showing missing and obsolete statistics like in Data Studio

both obsolete and missing statistics were clearly visible in the user interface but we are unable to find them anywhere including in the capture query environment output
about 2 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Produce explain Summary Report as was produced in Data Studio

In addition to the index, table, and predicate reports, Data Studio produced a Summary Report that we'd like to see produced
about 2 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

IIDR CDC Started task filling SYSOUT with no way option to limit it currently. Enhance product to filter and reduce SYSOUT logging levels

An S722 abend can occur when the SYSOUT output exceeds its defined limit. In a z/OS environment, setting DISPLAYLOG=TRUE causes all diagnostic log messages to be written to the SYSOUT DD statement. To avoid generating a high volume of log data, it...
about 2 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Provide alternate authentication method for system accounts (different from user authentication method)

Safer Payments v6.8 introduced full OIDC support. In this version, Safer Payments now does the "heavy lifting", communication directly with the IDP to retrieve an ID token containing the user's information. This is a great feature and works with a...
4 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Copy/Paste Ignore Rule Calculated Cells

The ability to copy paste multiple cells of data across a section of cells that contains some rule derived cells. This would reduce the time required to enter data by reducing the amount of times we have to copy paste to avoid the rule derived cells.
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Expose PAW User Administration Logs for PAoC

Please enable visibility into the action/actor/operation/status for user update activities performed within PAW for Planning Analytics on Cloud environments and enable the 'actor' to be associated with the actual user making updates/changes. Curre...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted