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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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Dashboard Drill Through Definition - use datasource data items, not just fields in visuals

When creating a dashboard drill through definition you can only easily use data items that on visualisation to pass through to report parameters. When you have lots of navigation paths it isn't easy to pass through all the appropriate data items t...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Enhance grid-update mode in PAW to also defer recalculation after copy-paste-operation

In PAW you have an option to "defer recalculation" in the grid-update mode. This works for normal data entry and selection from picklists. However, it does not work for copy-paste operations. When users use copy-paste the exploration gets recalcul...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

ALTER STOGROUP can run in parallel to applications => Deferred ALTER

We need to move a lot of page sets and hence a lot of data from one z/OS catalog to another and also to other stogroups and volumes. For this task we nned to ALTER the hlq of the page sets and move them via DFDSS FASTREPLICATION. Unfortunately the...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY The DB2 redirected recovery functionality allows RECOVER utility to be used to redirect the recovery of an object (the source) to another object (the target). The source and target objec...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 6 Future consideration

PAfE - Autofit setting for a Cube View (rows and columns) in the Viewer

Hi team, It would be highly appreciated by customers if you add auto-fit setting to Viewer in PAfE. At the moment the users have to resize width of the rows and columns to be able to start data analysis.
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Future consideration

Object Level Security at Table and Field Level for Data Modules

Data Modules do not currently have a way to specify object level security at the table or field level the way Framework Manager does. You should be able to set which tables and fields a particular user or group of users is able to see. There are m...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Future consideration

Unconsolidated Permissions

Problem: I expected to have all permissions at the "Access-control" Tab. Unfortunately it is not like this. As I know by today there are also permissions to be set at the "Data>Connectivity" Tab and I don't know where else there are. This makes...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Future consideration
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Db2 runstats command, allow to be run on table partition level

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Db2 Runstats command can only be run on whole table, at this moment. It cannot be executed on selected partitions only.RUNSTATS ON TABLE table ....options... We would like to have possibility to execute runstats utility on selected partitions only...
about 2 years ago in Db2 3 Future consideration

Introduction of Framework 'View Transaction History' log or similar concept for Data Modules to capture changes.

The 'View Transaction History' log within Framework was a good way to identify evolving changes on a FM project. Data Modules, by my understanding, do not have this facility. This type of enhancement for DM's would be beneficial for developers to ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Future consideration

Enable Primary Key & Foreign Key Support for all connections Especially for GBQ connection

We request an Enhancement to support Primary key and foreign key relationships in GBQ connection types. Currently this functionality is unavailable in v5.1.1, impacting our ability to maintain data integrity and enforce relationships in our Data l...
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration