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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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XML type support in Db2 stored procedure debugger

XML data type is not supported in Db2 stored procedure debugger in Data Studio or Visual Studio add-in. We are developing our support for SEPA and ISO 20022 projects using Db2 z/OS native stored procedures. They both heavily depend on XML. It woul...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

System Audit Log - Detailed Extract

Quarterly SOX compliance requires detail (Company, Account, Amount) found when clicking "show details" button for each modified form within System Audit Log for a given period. Currently manually opening each entry to verify amendments made by spe...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

Allow creation of a job which can test a group of datasources, and e-mail the results to an admin

When maintenance events take place, it would be helpful to be able to schedule a job which will test all of the data sources, and notify an administrator if issues are present, so that they can be resolved proactively, prior to end-users reporting...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Autosave feature in Cognos Controller

We would like to request the addition of an Autosave feature in Cognos Controller, particularly when using the Data Entry function (integrated with the Controller Excel link) for entering reported company values. Currently, users experience data l...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Process Cognos Analytics report output further as input in Data Module

Purpose is usually very simple planning or easy implementation of data from an additional source. Workaround is file export, external processing & import as uploaded file (last even without a native scheduling). Transferring existing business ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Future consideration

Glossary 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 glossary and lineage. This capability only exists for Reports - it does not exist for Dashboards or Stories. It would be nice to...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

CM should support majority-vote failover arbitration as an alternative to priority-based

Currently, the Informix Connection Manager handles failover arbitration on the basis of a priority setting in the ${CMCONFIG} file. This has the effect of making a single CM the judge, jury and executioner when it comes to failover events. And it ...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Status change or pending DDL when adding a KEY LABEL to an existing table

When an existing table is altered to add a KEY LABEL to enable encryption on the table, the encryption only takes effect post a Reorg (effectively post a redefinition of the underlying VSAM datasets). So the alter is effectively incomplete until s...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

TIMESTAMP with TIMEZONE

Competitive databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQL Server along with others have data type TIMESTAMP with TIME ZONE but LUW does not. Our own DB2 on z/OS starting version V11.0 has TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE.
over 10 years ago in Db2 3 Future consideration

Deltas on Reference Data Sets

We would like the ability to see the changes made to a reference data set in a downloadable csv/excel file. The activity log shows the information on the screen, however, this is not very helpful when analyzing the changes or keeping audit trails ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration