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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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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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New UI - allow multiple IE sessions

The new UI doesn't allow multiple IE 11 sessions to be used simultaneously. When I try having 2 separate browser sessions open (using the File > New session option) I always get a "The session has expired. Please log in again." error when I try...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Functionality already exists

Remove serialization when using DB2 Federation to access a delimited file

If you define multiple nicknames in DB2 federation server that access a delimited file, they are serialized thru a common 'channel' that accesses the file resulting is long elapse times event through there are system resources available. Please re...
over 6 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

TM1 Applications (contributor) subset popups window with two pane

In the current version of TM Applications (Contributor) (IBM Planning Analytics 2.0.5 ) When a subset is opened it brings up a window with two panes. This is very confusing to the users. The Old version brings up only a single pane. Please s...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Administration Create MIG Data job in Batch with no foreground input required

For automation we require the ability to generate MIG with DATA via a batch job with no foreground input. This is to enable the whole process to be automated via zosmf workflows. So, for instance, there may be a requirement to generate unloads and...
over 6 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

SPSS License Manager's log file should log both "Client PC IP address" and "Client PC Host name".

SPSS License Manager's log file log only "Client PC Host name", and doesn't log "Client PC IP address". If Client PC has Host name, the log file logged only Client PC Host name. It is difficult to know the PC's IP address. My customer would like t...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

reduce I/O activity to /etc/services upon each connect

Using filemon, we see 191 accesses to /etc/services for each Connect statement. It seems this file should only be accessed once or twice. This has been verified by IBM personnel with ticket TS001677150.
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

DB2 IFCID fields too small to accomodate data

As described in PMR 46301,820,820 the following fileds in DB2 needs to be changed to handle binary overflow which is common on customer installation:- Number of getpage requests. F QBACGET- The number of requests to lock a resource. F QTXALOCK - T...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add standardization functionally to Task record(s) compare screen in Inspector

When viewing a tasks in Inspector, the compare screen of the attributes is not applying the standardization rules and therefor will indicate attributes are different when in fact to the algorithm, the are considered the same. We would like for ins...
almost 7 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Make calculated measures works with auto-generated members in cross tables

When using a calculated measure coming from a Dynamic Cube as sub-column of an auto-generated member (E.g. "Year to date Change") in a cross-table, the output results are calculated wrongly. For "not calculated" measures, the output calculated in ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

formal export/import procedure in Decision Center instead of cut and paste.

This was suggested by one of my ODM users and promptly seconded by others. I did open a pmr to ask about this and was told it is not supported and suggested posting the idea here. Our requirement is to download the actual decision tables(Excel For...
almost 7 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration