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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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Pass a parameter from a dashboard to dynamically filter the SQL source in the data module

A parameter (e.g. date parameter) created in a report can be passed to the SQL query in the data module. The SQL query just has to use the notation #sq(prompt(['prompt name]','[prompt data type]'))#) to refer to the parameter. Similar functionalit...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

DOE - DDL protection issue

Protection of Master DDL (tables etc.) owned by application teams and how DOE can successfully and fully restrict changes to only by ‘owners’ of those objects. Example: •A DOE Team is created e.g. ABC, assigned to an Environment and ABC team m...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Future consideration

DB2 lineage repository shoud exclude intrinsic DB2XML schema

Why is it useful? DB2XML schema does not add any value to data lineage. It just adds confusion to users when it appears in repository view. Removing this DB2XML intrinsic schema from repository should help. Who would benefit from it? Manta users. ...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Better control over objects added to repositories/git integration

I would like to have a more fine grain control of the objects being pushed/pulled into the TM1 database through the git/repo integration. The current specific example is the inability to ONLY move a rule change as part of the integration. Currentl...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Cognos REST API - Permission check that only displaying the folders/items the logged in user has permissions to view.

Via de Cognos REST API - The call: api/v1/content/team_folders/itemslogged on as a specific user with a security token, you always see all the folders of present. It is not limited for the folders that the user has access to.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

User ID metrics Consistency across several monitor interfaces

User Id identification metrics are not consistent across different monitoring interfaces. Db2 offers different metrics to identify the end user. CLIENT_USERID SYSTEM_AUTH_ID SESSION_AUTH_ID The same 3 metrics should be available in ALL places wher...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Increase the length of Informix usernames

Within Informix the username is defined as char(32). The Informix feature "Informix trusted context" enable Informix to be used with Federated Authentication, in such cases the impersonated user is identified using an email address. In view of thi...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Allow TFUI views to be renamed

The views usually evolve and the name becomes obsolete. It takes a lot of steps to copy them just in order to rename them. Admins end up not doing and the names get really confusing. Having functionality to rename them would be great.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Add screenTip to Cognos scanner

screenTip is a property of data elements in Cognos Framework Models that allows the developer of the model to explain that data element's meaning and/or how it should be used. If this property is captured in the scans, it can be made available in ...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Add Business Entity Overview from Standard-UI to TF-UI

In the standard UI we had the possibility to navigate business entities via Business Entity Overview. In this view the top-level business entities are displayed and a user can drill-down further the hierarchy by un-collapsing the top-level busines...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration