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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.

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.

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256 VLDB2012 - DB2 command enhancement -DISPLAY UTILITY

DB2 commands need to be improved in many aspects to provide additional usability, functionality and detail. -DISPLAY UTILITY DETAIL would provide additional diagnostic information about impacted objects e.g. DATABASE/TABLESPACE/PARTITION and/or TA...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Backup / ReadAhead Performance

To speedup backup time, it would be nice if Informix can read with more than 64k from disk. Example 12G SAS SSD - read 100 GByte with dd iflag=direct:Blocksize Throughput Time64k 197 MB/Sec 519 Sec (8:39)256k 438 MB/Sec 233 Sec (3:53)2048k 1186 MB...
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Changing Distributed Keys

In de new IDAA it took more than 6 days to change distributed keys, and then we cancelled the proces..it would be nice, that this proces can finish in max load time, in our case 33 hours. Why we need it , it could be in the future needed to change...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Field value valuation

Possibility to define field value validation across 2 fields that are not enumerated strings.For example:- Currency field 1 > Currency field 2- Date field 1 <= Date field 2- Substring (Simple String field 1) = Substring (Simple String field 2)
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 3 Future consideration

Options for controlling and securing email attachments

We need to have more options to control email attachment functionality. 1. Give administrators the ability to set access to email attachment option by group/role. 2. Give the option to prevent emailed report attachments when the report contains a ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable datatype information when converting Query Studio reports

When using the "Convert to report" option to convert Query Studio reports to Report Studio/editor, data items do not contain the XML tags required for several reporting options to function properly, namely filtering and inserting a calculation wit...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Admin Tool: Cannot Scroll Right to View Info Edit Subject

The Db2 Administration Tool 12.1.0 does not allow scrolling to the right when listing image copies for table spaces. 1. From the “DB2 Administration Menu 12.1.0” – select option 1 – DB2 system catalog 2. From the “System Catalog” menu, select Opti...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

New TurboIntegrator/Rule function to obtain an Unique ID

In our on-premise application, a tremendous number of TI processes are executed simultaneously, requiring to be identified uniquely in the system in order to avoir locks. Historically we used a combination of 'RAND()' and other information to gene...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enforce that the user is assigned to the profileName referenced in the Definition sheet in order to upload data

We need Fastmap to check if the profileName set in the Definition sheet is among those configured for the user who is uploadingdata, and apply the corresponding permissions. E.g.: if User 1 is associated to Profile A and User 2 is associated to Pr...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 4 Delivered

Json Key Files for Google Big Query Connections have credentials in Clear Text (Not secured)

When creating Google Big Query connection in Cognos Analytics it requires to add the JSON Key file location in the connection string. The JSON key file is stored on the local Cognos dispatchers and the JSON files will have sensitive security infor...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration