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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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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

The "Files and Attachments" should be available for reporting as well

Currently there is no mechanism to show the related/uploaded Files i.e., SOXDocuments for reporting in Cognos, this limits the capability of the report and the users always have to navigate back to the system to see, if there are any attached file...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Reporting 1 Under review

Custom template with attached package in CA

Hello, I want to make template with attachment package, because I use only one package and all the time, when I make new raport, so I have to choose this same package everytime.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide Update and Checkout button on Readonly File/SOXDocument

Even if SOXDocument is readonly for a user, still he can see Update/Checkout button, which give false impression to user that he can edit attachment. Please hide this button.
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Data validation in a skill when data source is a list uploaded from excel/csv

We would like to see an data validation option provided for a list data uploaded through an excel file. Following are the possible validations that could warn user when an incorrect is being uploaded Validation during file upload: A skill should...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Delivered

Support for adding/adjusting dates by workdays

Our Deloitte Sense solution based on the ORM, have functionality to schedule performance of a control. The schedule will use offset days to add og substract days to the end of a control monitoring period. For example, for controls covering the mon...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 4 Future consideration

Excel Style Column Title Filters (in Cognos and upon Export to Excel)

We would like to see this column title header filter functionality demonstrated in this custom extension created by Veracitiz become a standard feature in Cognos Analytics reporting. See demo here: Creating Custom Dropdown with Flexi-Search in Cog...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Log offload task needs to be manually cancelled restarted after outage to tape

We are seeing situations when tape processing is down and a DB2 request to offload logs to tape is initiated using dynamic allocation, that offload task will hang and never be satisfied until the offload task is cancelled and re-driven manually. T...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Grid View in Task Focused UI should have same display functionality as in Standard UI

The Standard UI offers the ability to display up to 3 levels of object instances in Filtered List Views or Grid Views. The Grid Views in the new UI so far are missing this ability. It further would be beneficial, if more than 3 levels could be dis...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 6 Not under consideration