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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.

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.

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Show recently used packages when creating a new report in authoring

In Cognos 10 there were multiple ways to create a new report in Report Studio with pre-selected package. With Cognos 11 this has been changed in a negative manner. It is now more effort to initialize a new report in authoring. First you have to st...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bulk Apply R/Y/G Score Thresholds to Multiple Items in Cognos Administration

Currently, Cognos Analytics Administrators must manually set Red/Yellow/Green (R/Y/G) score thresholds (such as Success Percentage, Average Response Time, etc.) for each dispatcher, data source, and other monitored items individually. There is no ...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Lineage on Dashboards

When you are running or developing a report within Cognos 11 - you have the ability to click on a data item and choose lineage to determine where that data is coming from. This capability only exists for Reports - it does not exist for Dashboards ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under 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...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add Q Replication Monitoring to Db2 Console

IBM configuration, management, and monitoring GUI tooling for the IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IIDR) Q Replication component is comprised of Q Replication Dashboard (deprecated) and Replication Center (sort of deprecated) with prior hints that...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Simple way to check consistency between DB2 and IDAA

When implementing data replication we found a number of tables showing different number of rows in DB2 and on IDAA (2 IDAAs installed with replication). To verify this we did as follows:- Disable table for acceleration in IDAA1- Run SPUFI with SEL...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

IF Statement w/out ELSE

Would be great to have the ability to end an IF statement after condition is met. e.g. IF (_add_months([$System Fields:Last Modified Date$],6) >= [$TODAY$] THEN “Dormant”, ELSE <Do Nothing> ENDIF If we set it to what it was already (“In P...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Automated Reference Data Synchronization with Azure Databricks Delta Tables

Problem Statement: Currently, synchronizing Reference Data with Azure Databricks Delta Tables is a manual process involving data export from IKC and manual transfer to the Azure cloud platform. This approach is inefficient and error-prone. Propose...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced Data Export File Format Support for Reference Data

Problem Statement: Currently, Reference data export functionality is limited to CSV format, restricting its versatility and usability for various data destinations. Proposed Solution: Expand Reference data export capabilities to support a wider ra...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced Data Import File Format Support for Reference Data

Problem Statement: Currently, Reference data import functionality is limited to CSV format, restricting its versatility and usability for various data sources. Proposed Solution: Expand RDM's data import capabilities to support a wider range of co...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration