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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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Allow Informix to accept Non PAM aware clients to connect when using PAM PASSWORD mode

Standard Informix Authentication on unix will perform a getpwnam() call to retrieve the encrypted shadow password from the OS, it will then compare an encrypted version of the password supplied by the client against this, and if they match, authen...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Report running Cancel dialogue window could have more value with additional options, such as switch format.

Report consumers often don't know that they can run a report in their preferred output format. Untrained consumers will typically run a report to HTML, wait for it to run, then use the run in Excel option. If a report takes a long time to run then...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

ICP4D Should remove the connection reference for catalog assets/Deleted the referenced assets from catalog and project if the connection deleted from platform connection.

We are getting connection id details for catalog data asset in v3 API response but unable to find the connection details. Expectation: 1. ICP4D Should remove the connection reference for catalog assets if the connection deleted from platform conne...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 2 Under review

Future roadmap on the Database

I would appreciate it if you could help me with the following inquiries: 1) Will OpenPages support RDS Oracle DB for future releases in On-Prem environments? If so, what will be the supported DB versions? 2) Currently, the supported version of Ora...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 2 Not under consideration

Report references within Dashboards

It would be a nice to have feature to reference a report or an object within a report within a dashboard. Similar to the same functionality as Cognos Workspace had -- where you could reference a list or crosstab of a report and link the items toge...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

enhance smf records for reporting secure connections

When just beginning to implement secure db2 ports (sometimes called encryption in-flight), it is helpful to report on the performance of queries that are secure vs queries that are non-secure. This can help us to fully tune our applications for th...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Request for Product Enhancement – Low Latency Data Processing Capabilities in watsonx.data

The customer is currently using watsonx.data to support a high-partition, high-ingestion analytics platform. While the system is now stable after several patches and fixes, they are looking ahead to future enhancements that can meet their true low...

Sending 1 email with multiple reports for a scheduled job

Looking for ability to create a single scheduled job that runs multiple reports (or report booklets) but send them all attached to a single email when completed.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Copy&Paste of layout elements: Check if referenced query exist and ask if they should be reused

When copying lists (also crosstabs, charts, etc.) the referenced query is always created as well. If the name already exists in the target report, a number (1, 2, 3, etc.) is appended. It should be checked if the query with the corresponding name ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Keep certain cells in PAW

In PAW exploration views can be filtered / changed by using the dimensions: Keep and Hide are used a lot. This works fine. What would still be an extra improvement is to add a Keep option in the grid with cells. For instance, I select 1 cell, righ...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration