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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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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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Prompts: variable default values

System: Cognos Analytics ReportingActor: User needing a simpler reporting experience Description:Reporting users have a need for reports that are easy to use. Prompt controls allow hard-coded default values. Sometimes the users want default values...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Make RESYNC port secured

Why is it useful?Making the DB2 resync port secure will protect it from getting hacked or allowing unsecured connections to a port that could be used to serve data from the mainframe for nefarious purposes beyond two-phase commit work. Who would b...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

CDC support remote connect to MySQL slave node replication and creating metadata tables at slave nodes

MySQL has a very high market share in China, and especial to banking with core business system. Many MySQL customers use master-slave architecture, typical configuration as 1master with 3 slaves , and MqSQL as source is one major scenarios with CD...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Restricting Workbook Tab Visibility Based on User Permissions

In this setup, a single workbook is shared across multiple user groups. Some users do not have permission to access certain data cubes, which are used in the second tab of the workbook. To improve user experience and avoid error messages, the goal...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

UTS PBG, SINGLETON SELECT and Lock Avoidance.

Hello Db2 for Z/OS Development. Apar PM89016 was created several years ago to implement the lock avoidance for singleton SELECTs with ISO(CS) and CD(YES) when R-scan is used, or the index that is chosen has matching predicates on all columns of th...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Provide an extract of transaction log to end-users in PAW in order to trace the history of users' inputs

The idea would be for example to add a function in the right click menu from a cell (from PAW views) to be able to contextually retrieve the history of data changes stored in transaction log (value before, after, user and date).
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Problem while using custom cards API

Hi team, I am raising this case on behalf of customer. We discussed with Zen services and provided below but customer requirement is different from default features Provided solution: Those api routes are only used for the homepage and do not have...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Under review

Support lineage for Data Modules

I was surprised to find that data lineage is not supported for data modules when this is one of the key differentiators in the market for Cognos. Please consider to add lineage support for data modules asap.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

watxonXBI allow cross metric (multi data source) querying to enhance Semantic Search

Great American Insurance Group (GAIG) is seeking a powerful semantic layer that can help them gain business insights across multiple data sources. In addition, that one layer must offer ease of use, scalability and trust/governance. They have disp...
2 months ago in watsonx BI 0 Submitted

Regex for Business Terms

There could be a feature where Business Terms could be automatically linked to fields/tables using REGEX, just like what happens with data classes.
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Under review