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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.

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CHECK utility SHRLEVEL CHANGE with less dataset privileges

To run CHECK utility with SHRLEVEL CHANGE you need ALTER privilege to the VSAM dataset where the table-, LOB- or index data are stored as the shadow dataset is created with almost the same name as the original. This also mean that the user will be...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Proper RACF Group based security policies with fine-grain role permissions

In enterprises, different employees perform different roles and they move across teams or have organisation changes. Current IIDR CDC product doesn't support proper RACF based group policies which means when a new user joins or leave a team, vario...
4 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Allow relative time frame/data range in Report Definitions

Report definitions in Safer Payments only allow for a fixed time frame definition (i.e. from 2023-06-08 00:00:00 to 2023-06-09 00:00:00). At the same time Safer Payments can generate reports through a scheduled job, i.e. once per day. The job-gene...
over 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Introducing configurability of Case Actions combined/chained requests

Currently a case action is linked to a single outgoing action, which serves the purpose for direct actions (e.g. decline transaction). However, in case an action should be executed alongside another (decline transaction, notify customer), the only...
5 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Submitted

Allow users to select multiple variables at once in the Compute Variable dialog to streamline the creation formulas without inserting each variable individually.

In the current version of SPSS, the "Compute Variable" dialog makes it unnecessarily tedious to calculate for example the mean of multiple variables. Users have to insert each variable individually into the formula, either by double-clicking or ty...
6 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

IBM Cognos objects precise metadata

According to answers of tickets, today it is not possible to get exact metadata of Cognos objects(module, report, package), that matches with database object name. For example, table name that is used in module is "dim$calendar", however, accordin...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Submitted

Delete Integration Functionality via CLI or API

We require a programmatic method to delete integrations as part of the Databand Automation, similar to the existing functionality for creating integrations via CLI. Currently, the UI only performs a soft delete, which means we have to reach out to...
about 1 year ago in Databand / Feature 0 Submitted

Sync two or more Universal Reports

I would like to have two (or more) universal reports side by side. Two universal reports with the same row dimension. I want the rows to be synchronised. This means that when the first report is expanded or collapsed, the second report should follow.
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Application/Websheet Security for V12 Server

It has come to my attention that there is no security on Application folders in the V12 / PA SaaS version. This means that any user can upload / update any file or folder. This is a major gap between V11 and V12 security capabilities. Support told...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Increase 128 character limit for ADMIN_MODE_USERS onconfig parameter

ADMIN_MODE_USERS is a useful way of ensuring DBAs and critical monitoring scripts can connect in single user mode. Unfortunately this parameter is limited to 128 characters which is insufficient for the team we have and the three system accounts t...
about 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted