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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.

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Resubmit functionality is not available for report in 10.2 format

Resubmit functionality allows user after entering parameters and executing report navigate back to parameters page with all parameters values entered before the run. This feature is available only when option 'Run with full interactivity' is set t...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Toggle between Capitalize object names YES and NO with a command.

Our shop have decided to use camel case notation for rest service objects. So the package names are in camel case as the collections they are places in and so on. We seldom user lower case in any other Db2 objects which means that we have “Capital...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Make ifxcollect dump location configurable

The directory used by ifxcollect is hardcoded to $INFORMIXDIR/isa/data.This breaks as soon as IDS has been upgraded to a new version/special build and needs manual intervention which can be forgotten easily. What would probably work much better if...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Request designed as POST is accepted as GET:

The application will accept and process a request sent as a GET, even though it is designed to be used as a POST. A GET request exposes any included parameters in browser history, printed pages, and server logs. A POST prevents those exposures. En...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

COPY UTILITY enhancement

Actually:Incremental image copies are not allowed when:- No full image copies exist for the table space or data set that is being copied-After a successful LOAD or REORG operation, unless an inline copy was made during the LOAD or REORG job.Add a ...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

IIDR version 11.4 should to support Oracle RAC flexibility allowing database instances up/down on any nodes for undefined lon

IIDR version 11.4 should to support Oracle RAC flexibility allowing database instances up/down on any nodes for undefined long period time within the cluster. For Oracle RAC databases, as long as one instance is up and running, the database is ava...
about 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

LSF: tmp (in tmpfs) monitoring when cgroup enabled

when cgroup is enabled on both OS & LSF, it's now possible to account tmp usage for jobs when /tmp FS is in tmpfs. ("cache" value of "memory.stat" cgroup file, that can be excluded from swap using "LSB_CGROUP_MEM_INCLUDE_CACHE" parameter) Is i...
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Include Export Template Parameters to capture/record the Criteria applied by the User in the Filter List View

Users regularly utilise the Filter List View's Export mechanism to generate Object data extracts which can be analysed/shared using a spread sheet application e.g., MS Excel. As a default, upon Exporting a Filtered List, the resulting output (Fast...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

How to Update FastMap Format for Mutil-User Fields

In OpenPages fastmap export, the format of multi-select users field is hardcoded to export as \r\n, and cannot be configured. FastMap parameters multiSelectDelim setting only applies for lists. It should be extended the multiSelectDelim functional...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 0 Not under consideration

Bypass Package BIND/REBIND Locks for EXPLAIN(ONLY)

We have an analysis tool that we use to analyze potential changes in access paths. For timeliness of analysis our need is to use this tool during the business day. The tool uses EXPLAIN(ONLY) as a BIND parameter. Based on system workload, we exper...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration