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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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Migration of multi-table tablespaces to UTS PBG

Difficulties to migrate from old tablespace types to UTS.DB2 V10 gives us the opportunity to use the ALTER-syntax to change tablespace type from SIMPLE or SEGMENTED to UTS PBG without (almost) any outage. Unfortunately there is a limitation which ...
over 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Reduce shutdown time - allow for reduction of Db2 footprint before STOP DB2

As the Db2 footprint on our mainframe systems has increased (larger bufferpools, larger GBPs, more open datasets), one of the challenges we have faced is that Db2 takes longer to shut down. Our shop has recently focused on reducing down-time and i...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Workflow to limit agentic catalog from becoming agentic swamp

The Orchestrate Discover Agents catalog allows anyone to create and deploy agents. You could have several agents that all do the same thing (or close to it.). Can we use AI (or other logic) that when a user wants to create/publish a new agent, tha...
3 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Future consideration

Read-Only Task view for closed records.

Right now there is not option to create completely read-only view . we have to to each field and make it reads only for each field. it will be better to have read-only view with toggle button and filter can be added based on status. it will be mak...
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Under review

Add Close button in PAfE/set editor window

The set editor window in PAfE is closed by pressing the "X" on top-right corner, while in PAW there is a "Close" button on the bottom - left area of the window. To increase the processing speed and ensure coherence it would be preferred to have al...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Needs more information

Add functionality for Setting a dashboard as Read Only. Being able to set the permissions to edit/delete at a dashboard level.

At the moment the permissions to edit or delete a dashboard need to be done at a user/group level. We need each user to keep its capabilities. We are trying to iframe a dashboard into our application. The problem is that after the user clicks anyw...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Journal Update According to Reconciliation of Accounts in Controller Web

Where Controller Classic setting ‘Journal Update According to Reconciliation of Accounts’ is enabled. This setting is ignored by Controller Web. For example, in Controller Web, if a user posts a value in the journal to a movement account, on save,...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

IBM Enterprise COBOL / Db2 coprocessor - Validate Db2 cursor names at compile time

Hi, The IBM Enterprise COBOL compiler supports the translation of Db2 statements (delegating them to the compiler's integrated coprocessor).These Db2 statements can reference read cursors, and cursors have an identifier. We noted that only the EXE...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review

Lock/ready-mark a subgroup

When using company status you ready mark a company (for a specific closing version, defined in the general configuration settings). However, other journal types than the ones included in that closing version is still open. In the next stage of rep...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Add the ability to upload Db2 transaction log files to TSM that had been moved manually by DBA

We use Db2 log archiving to TSM servers. No failover archive path has been set yet. Under rare circumstances we faced situations where log archiving to TSM does not work or slows down and the active log path fills up. To prevent disk full situatio...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration