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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Deployment friendly implicit LOB naming

The Db2 feature to implicitly create LOB structures could be very helpfull for us. But we are facing a big problem with the implicitly created objects. Db2 for example names the auxiliary table with an random prefix (as well for LOB tablespace, au...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

non-proportional fonts

When developing a complex expression for a data item or a filter (using CASE, OR, etc.) the code can become difficult to read because text on similar lines of code does not align well. This is because the font used ("IBM Plex Sans", Helvetica, Tah...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

WDS highlights should honour Advanced Search quotes

During Project Daisey development, we've come across the inconsistency between highlights returned by WDS and the query. Even if the WDS Query language query contains a compound term (which project daisey uses very frequently for financial terms ...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Custom Modeling in Data Modules from Planning Analytics

Using a data source connection to a Planning Analytics application, I'm able to generate a Cognos Analytics Data Module from specific application cubes. However, when opening the Data Module, I first have to create a table/view of the application ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Source of data is missing within dashboards/stories

When a dashboard is developed and you want to verify that it is pulling back the right data from the right data items/objects - this is impossible to determine. All you have is the data item name - but what happens when that data item name exists ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make REGEXP SQL functions available in Db2 for z/OS without IDAA

We recently had a developer who wanted to use a REGEXP_LIKE clause in SQL for an application. He was told that this functionality was available in Db2 12 for z/OS. However, on further investigation, the functionality requires IDAA. We assume that ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

The Q-Replication apply programm shall be able to call the Db2 High Performance Unload (HPU) utility by the HPU stored procedure

Hello, in enterprise warehouse and OLTP areas of DB2 installations exist often very big databases with several tera bytes (often 100 of TBs) of data. For example we have several OLTP databases with more than 20TB and tables with billion of records...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Reportname not fully displayed in Authoring

When a report with a reportname longer than 24 characters is opened in Authoring, the reportname will not be fully displayed in the header.Even though it is conform with the display in content navigation it would be better to display the full name...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Trace calculation option not available in workbench for }CellSecurity Control objects

Developers needs to trace rule calculated cells for }CellSecurity Control object to check which rule is being applied but option is not coming after right click on rule calculated cell. This will help in debugging. We can do it from Book but devel...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

VS Code Extension for IBM Data Virtualization Manager

Recently , there is a wide adoption of VS Code IDE among the developer community , a VS Code extension of IBM DVM with all the functions as similar to DVM Studio.
about 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Not under consideration