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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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alter tablespace to convert PBG to PBR online

Changing a PBG-tablespace to a PBR one means dropping and recreating the object, involving a number of related tasks such as UNLOAD, LOAD, CHECK asf.
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 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

Alter PBG to PBR should be possible for tables with LOBs

The statement ALTER PARTITIONING TO PARTITION BY RANGE should be applicable for tables with LOB's. One of the main drivers for us to convert from PBG's to PBR's is that our LOB tablespaces are growing very large. As the base tables usually only co...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add the possibility to export free form in Controller Web

In the Export Company data which was delivered 2020: BACC-I-243 you cannot in any way export free forms in Controller Web meaning that the reporters can not export all forms thru controller web for documentations purposes which is needed in some c...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

New Request: Deployed AI service endpoint does not work when the model related to that service is deprecated

We have 20+ AI services deployed using llama-3 model. But now that we are deprecating them because we have llama-4 available, the existing services that are deployed using llama-3 will not work. The 20+ services are deployed in production and need...
4 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Disable gridlines in Cognos for Excel exports of reports/dashboards

Users desire that Excel exports of reports/dashboards to look as much as possible as in Cognos. For this, the gridlines in Excel should be disabled. Currently, there is no option in Cognos for disabling the gridlines, which means that each individ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Program Callgraph. Where files are used

The graph that shows the program callgraph is very good, but when using it to see where the files are being used, it does so by the label in the program. In our case, that label tends to be generic (e.g. FSALIDA, means exit file). By using the lab...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Edit data module from report and dashboard editors

It is possible to open a data module from another data module when it is used as a data source by the according context menu (three dots). This is a nice and convenient feature to make changes to an underlying source. It should also be possible to...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Snowflake destination events

Upon writing the data to snowflake table, we don't get any events which means we're unable to trigger any further action after writing to snowflake table. Currently we're facing two problems because of this: We need to write data to two snowflake ...
about 1 year ago in StreamSets 0 Future consideration

CHECK utility SHRLEVEL CHANGE with less dataset privileges

To run CHECK utility with SHRLEVEL CHANGE you need ALTER privilege to the VSAM dataset where the table-, LOB- or index data are stored as the shadow dataset is created with almost the same name as the original. This also mean that the user will be...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted