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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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Allow temp tables and backup before images to handle temp dbspaces which fill up.

If temporary tables/backup before images are spread across multiple temp dbspaces and one fills then put the data/page into the temp dbspaces which have space.This would stop backups/jobs failing.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Force Save button

It would be nice to force a save on a record, even if it has not been updated. Business use case: A risk record has a control attached. The control has values that are used in a calculation for risk rating that is stored on the risk. The control...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Duplicate flow to put new flow in same folder as original flow

Currently when duplicating a flow in CP4D the new flow is put in the root folder and not in the same folder as the original flow. Would be better if it worked like legacy and put the new flow in same folder
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

New option for load balancing

Especially at the beginning of a month our customers execute masses of reports at once. The queue within Cognos is huge. Most of the reports run fast, but there are also many reports that run longer (> 30 min. and runtime is even longer in this...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Clearer Guideline for free account user and student user

I am from IBM Managed Escalation team. We receive a lot of escalation from student SPSS user and free account user about SPSS subscription not working and account issue, which they could be able to find the answers to easily from FAQ or SPSS docum...
10 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

Notebooks: parameters and API

Be able to run a notebook from an API and give some input parameters. For instance, put in the notebook %%file_name%% and call the API with a value for the file.
about 8 years ago in Watson Studio 4 Functionality already exists

allow CREATE TABLE LIKE another table and propagate table partition limits

Today, it is possible to create a PBG tablespace and then use CREATE TABLE like another table and the new table is in the new ts. CREATE TABLESPACE ZPOLCL IN DDB01P SEGSIZE 64; CREATE TABLE TPOLCL LIKE DBCCLP1.TPOL IN DDB01P.ZPOLCL; If the source...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Put Interactive Map Widget Official in the Cognos BI release and give support

Put Interactive Map Widget Official in the Cognos BI release and give full support for it in Workspace. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ba-pp-reporting-scripting_techniques-page644/
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

OQWT in DSM for Z/OS Query Advisor Enhancement needed

Query Advisor missing obvious SQL predicate datatype inconsistency While researching a production issue in all our production systems with a remote DB2 program, we ran OQT in DSM and found that the QUERY ADVISOR was missing a very obvious and key ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

audit logs should distinguish user cancel from report failure

Our executives get monthly updates on report failure rates from our Cognos BI hosted solution. We find that a significant portion of the reports that are recorded in audit tables (cogipf_runreport) are actually user cancels. In order to develop ac...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration