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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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Enhance SPSS Modeler Solution Publisher Guide

User needing clear explanation of using the "User Input Node" on SPSS Modeler Solution Publisher In SPSS Modeler stream, "User Input Node" does not need any input data file (such as CSV). But in case of pim/par file for execution on Solution Publi...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Would like means of collecting Maxdbat information by AUTHID

We are in the process of providing max thread limits via the Db2 Profile tables AUTHID entries for our applications. We would like to use a AUTHID=* entry to provide a default thread limit and use AUTHID=xxx values for applications which may need ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

An environmental variable that sets the database to use "Enforced" as a default for constraints.

For some shops, constraints are always created as "Enforced". This used to be the default behavior, but the default behavior was changed to "Not Enforced" in Db2 V11.Creating an environmental variable would allow the teams to choose the default be...
about 2 years ago in Db2 2 Functionality already exists

To have a feature to update multiple ETLs at once thru DataStage designer interface

The idea is to have an additional tool or feature to allow multiple updates of similar changes to ETLs at once. This has to be done through DataStage interface. As IBM support has confirmed, 'there is no supported way of doing it' currently. Curre...
over 6 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

identify special columns with same meaning easily and modify data type

Use case: We want find columns with same meaning distributed over several tables easily either to modify the data type or find out the affected columns/tables only. For example there are price/money and other columns, each with an arbitrary column...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

The option that grant "own credentials" to others should be controled by a capability i.e. "Manage own credentials"

Under MyPreferences => Personal => under "Credentials" a user is always able to grant credentials to others, there is not way to deny this feature. For some customer this is a security risk although it does not mean to grant data security cr...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Validate the prompt default selections and report views saved parameters on report run time for planning analytics packages

When you use planing analytcs as data source and package in reports, member unique names (MUN) are the identifier for PAL elements in reports. For treeprompts there is a default value which will be saved in MUN format. Also when you create report ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Allow role based access of specific hierarchies, specs and lookup tables

Currently different users within our business are able to modify specific hierarchies or attributes. However, just because a user can modify one of those areas does not mean they should be able to access all areas. For example, a marketing user ma...
over 4 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Allow audit reporting to contain "re-run" statistics

If a job is scheduled to run multiple times throughout the day, and fails on one of the runs, most people go in and re-run the job. Currently, in the administration panel you can go into the details on the failed job, and check to see if the re-ru...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Update documentation to be clear which datasources are supported to generate datasets in databand

Up to date documentation is always useful to the developers. It reduces time and effort spent trying to figure out how the product works. Currently databand documentation does not specify which datasources are supported yet, in terms of whether it...
about 2 years ago in Databand / Not functional 0