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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Applications and Plans - Option to make all inactive tasks active

Option to make all inactive tasks active and not have to do it individually When creating a new plan / saving an existing plan as a new plan, all plan tasks start off as inactive. The plan developer must then open each task individually (inactive ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Modify permissions on DB2/LUW installation directories

During installation and instance creation of DB2/LUW ESE (and AESE), the following directories are create as world writable (OTHER permissions of 777) without the sticky bit set: sqllib/db2dump/DIAG0000 sqllib/db2dump/events sqllib/tmp sqllib/uif ...
about 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Governance Dashboard Enhancements

Existing Governance Dashboard (Cognos) reports shows the quality based on the number of records processed vs failed/passed records and against the Governance Policies and Governance Rules. Need Additional Reports for Data Quality and Metadata comp...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Data-partitioned secondary index (dpsi) support for row change timestamp columns

To identify which rows of a table have changed in specified time interval we are using timestamp columns. The values of these columns are set via the "GENERATED BY DEFAULT FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP" clause. To optimize query p...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Group Repeating Cells - export to Excel as Page Property

We create reports that detail the user-selected prompt choices on a cover page and the actual report on a report page. The cover page consists of a table with two columns: left column are all the prompt choices available, right column consists of ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Creating MX message via sample queues/flows

Dear support team, We already have opened a requirement (ID145570) but they suggested to address here a new idea with the following text which we already used in the requirement: Description: This requirement is NOT related to IIB, but to FTM SWI...
about 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Functionality already exists

Allow control of bufferpool selection on implicit tablespace create

Currently if you issue a CREATE TABLE and just specify a DATABASE, an implicit tablespace is created. It only uses the default bufferpool set at installation, panel DSNTIP1. Since the database is known, the default bufferpool specified for the dat...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

LOAD Replace improvement for RI tables

We had a Db2 DDL change where a new table "b" was created with a RI constraint to a parent table "a" which was also modified (DROP/CREATE). Table "a" had several rows which were unloaded before the change and loaded back after the DDL changes (LOA...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide an interface to manage System Profiles

System profiles were introduced as long ago as DB2 9, and have been successively enhanced in every release since then. They provide a range of capabilities, including setting ZPARMs at a more granular level, production modelling in test systems, m...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Searching subset editor within Planning Analytics for Excel (PAFE)

Issue - The search on a set in PA for Excel / PAW mirrors the way Architect works. When you open a set, only the visible elements will be searchable. Elements of consolidations that are not expanded will not be included in a search. If you expand ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered