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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.

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.

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When adding a collaborator (user) to a category, the "role" column is too narrow - make it broader by default, or allow users to widen it with a mouse

Our role names are sometimes long, and now the dropdown list truncates the names and user is left guessing what to choose. See attached picture. I know they can use the search to narrow down the options... but there is lots of unused space on this...
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

PAW Cubeviewer: Asymmetric calculations

PAW cubeviewer introduced "on the fly" calculation within the cubeview. However these calculation only works in symetric mode which means that we can't cross specific elements of several dimensions to create calculation. A simple example in financ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Delivered

Provide Detailed Information for "Date Modified" in Properties of a Report

Currently the Properties of a Report have a field called "Date Modified" and according to the website from IBM below this field is updated under various conditions and "modified" is not the best description of those conditions. The website advises...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance the SQLCODE screen to show total SQLCODE counts as well as the existing counts for SQLCODEs with details

The SQLCODEs screen is useful for tracking down SQL issues but when you drill into the details for a specific SQLCODE or change the grouping to PLAN/PACKAGE/USER/etc the screen looses the total count of the SQL errors and only gives you the count ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

When we try to read some Excel files into SPSS Modeler v18.5, we get an error saying format is not recognizable.

On Modeler Client 18.5, When we try to read some excels(image-1) filled with personal information like the one below in SPSS 18.5, we get an error saying format is not recognizable.(image-2) The same excel is read without any problems in 18.1. We ...
8 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Submitted

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

Track the export history

The export of user data (*) is currently not logged. Considering the fact that SaaS use is becoming more and more common these days, customers are highly concerned about the security of cloud services, and we believe that information leaks are an ...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Support DB2 LUW Specific Functions that are Missing in DB2 z/OS

State of California Office of Systems Integration (OSI) uses Db2 LUW in AIX environment, to support Child Welfare Reporting Caseworkers. We are working on a proof of concept to demonstrate transitioning of reporting workloads from Db2 LUW to IDAA ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DMC - "Other Waits" detail graphic needs to be dynamic and smarter

DMC v3.1.12 decided to create a fixed bucket named "Other Times" under "Other Waits" main category on Database Time Spent monitor page.. Please see attached screen-shot. In the main graphic, we can see "other Waits" is the most contributor. And in...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

E-Mails via REST API instead of SMTP

We are currently using IBM Cognos Analytics and have configured an SMTP server (including account and password) under Local Configuration > Data Access > Notification in the IBM Cognos Configuration. The SMTP server receives all emails, chec...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration