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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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Conversion DECIMAL do CHAR

We are in the process of migrating data from Db2 z/OS to Db2 LUW. In our many programs we convert DECIMAL data into CHAR, e.g. to display it on the reports in a readable format. Unfortunatelly Db2 LUW formats data diffrently than Db2 z/OS. Let us ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Submitted

Browse catalog of Agents and Tools by more than 12 records at a time.

The web interface to the IBM watsonx Orchestrate catalog is extremely limited and hard to browse. Almost half of the interface is lost to the search bar. The pager only displays 12 records at time. The records it does show are rendered in boxes wi...
2 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

DISPLAY UTIL should show more detailed count for the displayed phases

We have a REBUILD IX job with a table which has 8.5 billion rows. During the rebuild DIS UTIL shows for the UNLOAD phase a higher count than 8.5 billion e.g 10 billion or more. Therefore I openend a case how could it be that this number is higher ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DISPLAY EARLY CODE command

Good to know what the level of of the DB2 early code. IBM currently make viewing the early code level far more difficult than it needs to be.
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Please add rowspan and colspan as conditional style properties in list and crosstab cells

There are many times where I need to hide or show specific cells in crosstabs or lists. If I were to hide cells in the crosstab rows, other cells may cause the entire table to deform. This can be replicated quite easily by having Node 1 | Node 2--...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Planned for future release

PAW Dashboard: No size adjustment of the diagram content when using an iterator

Request from a customer: He wants to display different bar charts filtered by a set(or mulitselector) with an iterator in a bar chart object. Depending on the set and multiple selection, different numbers of iterators may be created. The object ad...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

PAW Dashboarding: Scroll bar in cell visualiszation and/or exploration + text formatting

Request from a customer. He wants to store long texts in cubes and want wo to display them in a PAW Book. Because texts can be very long and the size of the book page is not sufficient, it should be possible to scroll through the text in the visua...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

filter specific IDAA messages from being delivered to DB2.

All IDAA messages, once delivered to DB2, are wrapped in a DSNX881I message ID and displayed within DB2 and on the z/OS logs. In our case there was a VERY lengthy message of type /W3005/ which is delivered to us no less than 15 times a day for eac...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Ability to have "User-set server name" for all technology sources

We currently have “User-set server name“ for MSSQL Connection Configuration. This helps in displaying an Application Name in a standardized way in Flow Viewer that is understandable for the Business users. Since the name reflects as soon as the An...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Not under consideration

Option to rename column headers in Dashboard object table

We use a table to display a Top 5 list based on a count on a date field. We would like to rename the column header "Date of Login (Timestamp)" to somethin more meaningful, as this column contains a count value. This is not possible.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release