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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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Provide the ability to filter out users from the UMS user list.

This was discussed in support case TS018120853. We have set up UMS, and noticed a lot of users in the UMS user list that we would rather not see there. The cause is the fact that UMS picks up all the users that have access to the respective IZP SA...
5 months ago in Unified Management Server for z/OS 0 Under review

Allow relative time frame/data range in Report Definitions

Report definitions in Safer Payments only allow for a fixed time frame definition (i.e. from 2023-06-08 00:00:00 to 2023-06-09 00:00:00). At the same time Safer Payments can generate reports through a scheduled job, i.e. once per day. The job-gene...
over 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

CP4D does't use limit ranges for the analytical runtime enviroments R and Python

As an application manager for analytics, I want computer resources to be used efficiently and cost-effectively. Not using limit range on openshift means that only a few data scientists can use the system because all computer resources are immediat...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Not under consideration

Request to move the non-active jobs into Queue State instead of showing all the Jobs in Running State.

In ICP4D 4.6.5 Env there are around 20+ Jobs that are running in the state, when it comes to reality only 8 Active Runs means 8 jobs are handled in parallel, in that can the rest 16+ need to move into the Status: Queued instead of Running Status b...
over 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Set the Content Expiry header in spreadsheet services

Asking users to clear their browser cache when they change a websheet across a large company is difficult as not all users know how to do it. To facilitate that, we can set the content expiry header to 8 hours, which means the user browser will re...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review

Hard Delete of Data from OpenPages

Currently any data that is deleted from OpenPages either via the UI or API is a "soft" delete, meaning the data is not deleted from the actual database tables. Furthermore it is not possible to delete data from old reporting periods. There should ...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Delivered

ONLINE REORG INDEX without logging for HADR

Our Application:24x7. HADR synchronous. LOGINDEXBUILD=ON because of HADR. We have large tables with lots of indexes required for performance reasons. Current problem:We are unable to run online REORG indexes for large tables as this overwhelms our...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 2 Not under consideration

Allow mixed case for userids for Cognos/CPD

Cause & Issue: Currently, our user IDs in OpenPages are stored in uppercase During our migrating of OpenPages to CP4D, we found that CP4D stores its user IDs in lowercase This has led to the user sync job between CPD4 and OpenPages creating a ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable scheduling when using smartcard and kerberos constrained delegation

Using smartcard to login to CA means no username/pwd are stored in the system. This is a problem when scheduling. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). Bottom line: a system configured with kerberos constrained dele...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Support for Bind avoidance when using Enterprise Cobol with co-processor

The basic idea of Bind Avoidance is to exchange the consistency token in the executing code from the current version to the previous which means that no package bind will be necessary. Traditionally the Db2 pre-compiler has been used to pre-proces...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration