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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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Enable Provisioning Environment for PA on Cloud

We need a mechanism to enable user provisioning that does not rely on a single primary environment, as we have multiple user communities within our organization who should not have access to the other production environments. Additionally, we requ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Maker/Checker role assignment for Business Term approval

In a business term approval process , when a maker(workflow initiator) add user/user groups as a stewards(approvers) for any business terms ,current UI displays all users without verifying whether those users has reviewer role or higher permission...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review

Ability to add columns to DB2 z/OS tables without impacting IDAA or incremental update

Currently, adding a column to a DB2 z/OS table that is using IDAA with incremental update involves: 1) Adding the column in DB2 z/OS2) Stopping replication for all IDAA tables3) Dropping the affected table from IDAA4) Adding the affected table bac...
over 12 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Create a join in a report, when having multiple datamodules added to the report

We are developing a report with multi pages and add multiple datamodules. We create a fine and nice looking dashboard (using a report). I have multiple datamodules added, for example HR and Finance. For some Finance graphs, we need to make a join ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Temporal Base Table SQLOUT INSERTS have generate always columns as part of the insert

The timestamp columns supporting temporal should not be part of the INSERT. Also anytime a generate always column is excluded as it should have been in this run, columns must be added to the INSERT statement. --UNDO SQL FOR SUBSYSTEM: DAA1 --L...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 4 Delivered

Improve the certificate chain validation step in Cognos Configuration so that it also checks 3rd-Party certs, and alerts if expiry is approaching.

We recently had production outage due to intermediate certificate expiry, while server certificate was valid. Please consider adding a feature to check expiry dates on ALL certificates in the "encryption" chain: root, intermeate(s) and server, and...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Extend Cognos Analytics product documentation by information about 3rd party certificates

I was activating ssl in a customer's productive cognos analytics environment. I followed the instructions of the corresponding product documentation for cognos analytics 11.2.4: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=ecmica-conf...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

TFUI Allow Bar Chart Order to be based on dropdown display order

When adding a bar chart, there is no option to select the sort order of the bars. It automatically orders the bars from longest to shortest. Clients have requested to allow sorting of the bars to be fixed order based on the dropdown order. For exa...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Delivered

Automated Re-creation of Select-Star Views

If a view is created by using a 'SELECT *' statement, the view is not updated when a new column is added to the base table. An example: create table dm_tab(N integer, M integer) organize by row; insert into dm_tab(N, M) values (1, 2); create view ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Have column headers in crosstab describing the row header data

Having columns with IDs in crosstab row headers, without description makes data hard to understand. E.g. having "1" and "2" as row header, could by a running-count or a hour, a day, a month or year. This can be achieved in HTML and Export to Excel...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted