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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Enhanced labelling of functions in the TFUI

The "X" function to close tabs and to close inline guidance are incorrectly labelled. (unlabelled and "Help Button respectively). These should accurately describe the functionality.
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered

Make MRU (most recently used) Refresh Time Shorter or Configurable

We have found the MRU list, most recently used, is not reliably updated if the browser is closed without explicit log off from Cognos.The sync by the system every 5 minutes does work well. It would be helpful if this sync was more often or could b...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Make it more difficult to accidentally close windows in DataStage

When working in (for example) a Transformer, if you accidentally click outside of the pop-up window, the window will close like hitting the cancel button and all the work you'd done so far is gone. This can be extremely frustrating. On a similar n...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Update createDialog function to allow custom buttons

At the moment the createDialog function only allows for ok and cancel buttons. This is hardcoded into the function itself:__glassAppController.Glass.getCoreSvc('.Dialog').createDialog: createDialog(e) { const t = (0, a.default)("dialog"); (e = ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Pull the database schema change directly from one instance to another

It is an important use-case that developers who work closely as team mates would have needs to pull the schema change from the colleagues before the schema change is committed/approved/merged into application master branch. DOE pull-requests APIs ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Log something meaningful from the python symphony calls when something is missing

When an unexperienced symphony python developer trying to connect symphony via his python script (without knowing that he did not call function conn.create_session(sca) before making the connection call... the python script core dumped without giv...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Chart labels being too close to the markers

Chart labels being too close to the markers Note that sometimes the labels are not only too close but too far apart as well.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Limit open partitions to avoid very large rsam pool

In systems with a lot of tables informix can have a very large rsam pool. This can cause informix to allocate so much memory it starts swapping or in memory limiting versions (like workgroup, express etc.) to even let the engine crash. Sometimes t...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Prevent on-demand menu from covering properties pane

Request for on-demand menu not to extend over the properties pane. Currently on-demand menu covers the properties pane when it appears close to right hand side of canvas. Aaarrrghh!!There is no option to control where the menu appears, only an opt...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Send IFCID 317 data to SMF when stmts leaves cache

There is currently no way to get the text of a dynamic SQL statement when it leaves the cache. If one has IFCID 316 turned on, one can collect the SQL usage metrics in SMF, but not the text. One can get the statement text if one uses the EXPLAIN s...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

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