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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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Dropdown field values do not wrap for long names

Some of our dropdown values need to have long names as they provide very specific information. These are not displaying completely on the dropdown list i.e. values are truncated which makes it difficult to find and select the right value. On the S...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

No end time for completed jobs and Auto refresh option

Currently there is no end time displayed for completed jobs. End time information is crucial for identifying jobs that ran during a specific time frame, which is especially helpful for monitoring and troubleshooting. Also, the job monitoring page ...
3 months ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Include Stage names for stages in CPD Job Logs

In CP4D job logs, the stage name is currently not displayed for the stages making it difficult to identify which stage has triggered the execution. We request that the stage name to be included in the job log entries for the stages to improve moni...
3 months ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Enable BLOB Display As Picture Support

According to the Cognos Framework Manager help, BLOB fields can be set to display as a picture with MIME types defined such as JPEG, PNG, etc.. According to PMR 83142,442,000 that feature was never actually implemented. When this is enabled in Fra...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Issue command DISPLAY DB CLAIMERS on a LOAD SHRLEVEL NONE when DRAIN fails in UTILINIT phas

We faced situations in which LOAD SHRLEVEL NONE jobs abends with S04E and Reason Code 00C200EC during UTILINIT phase. When this abends occurs, LOAD was unable to DRAIN all the claimers, once it is SHRLEVEL NONE, before beggining LOAD data into tab...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add metrics to distinguish between a real active DBAT and a "cached" DBAT if High Performance DBAT is used

If High Performance DBAT is activated there is no flag in -DIS THREAD or in IFCIDs to distinguish between a real active DBAT (processing work) or a "chached" DBAT waiting for work. In a high volume environment as in our shop, it is critical to ide...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Customize data labels on dashboard

We would like the ability to change the label of a data item that is displayed on the dashboard the way we can change the label in the report authoring environment. This will authors to create cleaner looking dashboards when using data items that ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Improve display of long report names when editing it in Properties

In Properties, when you edit a long report title you can't see the entire report name and must use your cursor to display parts of the name. Our report authors find this frustrating. Please improve the interface to display the entire name when edi...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Language of PAX interface

PAX plugin takes the setting from operating system. In my client's company, users in Germany have by default their Windows Display Language set to German and they cannot change it as they don't have administration access to their laptops. So then,...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Default Selected categories should be displayed while creating MDE job.

Default Selected categories are not displayed in the categories section when we create MDE.
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration