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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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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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  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  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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Show Brand Icon in app bar

In CA 11.1.7 there was a brand icon in the appbar which was visible on every page. In CA 11.2 onwards this icon is missing and you can only see the brand icon on the startpage. As soon as you navigate to another page there is no brand icon visible...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Add support for system versioned tables

This feature is about having native support to version data within the table. The application will always be able to access the most current data, however through pseudo columns or via other means older version of the data is available. This featu...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

In DataStage, wildcards in the Azure Data Lake Storage connector are only allowed the filename, not in the filepath

In the Azure Data Lake Storage connector DataStage can read multiple files at once by specifying wildcards. But these wildcards are only allowed in the filename, not in the filepath. This means that all the files we want to read have to be present...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Future consideration

new aggregated WLM threshold for LOCKLIST at workload/service class level

We have MAXLOCK db-cfg parameter which can be used to avoid a single connection (UOW) to consume the LOCKLIST space. But this parameter some times it not enough. I have seen LOCK escalation cases happening (which locked system tables, causing huge...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Restrict Users From Using Cognos Groups And Roles As Email Recipients

Currently, any user can setup a Cognos report, subscription, or schedule to email any Cognos group or role. This means any Cognos group or role can be used as an email DL. For Cognos Admins and Focals, this is a very nice feature. However, end use...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Application connections storm slow downs the DB response

I've been assisting with an ecommerce site. During typical days, let's say non-peak/low volume of orders, the DB response is always good. However, the DB response time slows down for a few seconds, notably during peak season/high amount of orders....
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Add screenTip to Cognos scanner

screenTip is a property of data elements in Cognos Framework Models that allows the developer of the model to explain that data element's meaning and/or how it should be used. If this property is captured in the scans, it can be made available in ...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Workflow Administration - Terminate Workflow Instances

PLEASE create separate security permissions around Workflow Instances. Right now, it's baked into the "Workflow" security permission. This isn't helpful - we have to rely on our IT team to terminate workflows when we (the business leads) should be...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Allow user access tokens to have a lifetime similar to 'remember me' support industry best practice

Currently, we have robots that submit jobs using the Web Interface. The tokens expiration is currently static, and there is no API endpoint to determine the validity of the token which means that job submission and controls can fail randomly witho...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 0 Future consideration

All User Prompt Values

We desperately need to know ALL the prompts that are being submitted by users - the Admin interface shows the background processes, but user interactive reports aren't available. I tried RSVP.PARAMETERS.LOG=true in hopes of parsing cogipf_paramete...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration