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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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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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Column formatting to auto show full contents of cells

Users currently have to set the column width of all columns independently, and this is not saved as part of the view definition, which means it has to be done each time the view is opened.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

View dynamic cube messages in audit database or get notifications on failure via mail

When dynamic cubes fail to load or are unable to refresh their member or data cache, this is not logged in the audit database. The only convenient way to view these messages is via the cube messages in the cognos administration console. This way, ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Should be possible to schedule dataset refresh, reports etc using smartcard login together with Kerberos constrained delegation

Users are using smartcard login to CA. This means no username and pwd are stored in AD. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). On top of that the system is configured with kerberos constrained delegation. A solution ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Two pass logic

When a user attempts to delete a record on OpenPages, the system presents them with a pop-up ‘OK' / ‘Cancel'. It's a really good ‘user experience'. We'd like to implement a similar two-pass logic, and being able to utilise this same approach would...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

Allow a mean to display units in views

Be able to specify units of value in views.
about 5 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 0 Not under consideration

Meter "dirty" pages written to DB2 table spaces (disk) from CF or local buffer pools

DB2 uses 300 tasks (DB2 writers - it could be more now with later DB2 releases) to write modified (aka, "dirty") pages to the DB2 table spaces (either permanent tables or DB2 work files). From a DB2 perspective this is "efficient" but from a resou...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Not under consideration

Improvement in the check for high serial values

I'm trying to check if a serial value has reached its upper limit. I noticed the following unpleasant behaviour. In the sysmaster tables sysptnhdr and sysactptnhdr the currently used serial values are in three fields for the datatypes serial, seri...
over 5 years ago in Information Server 2 Not under consideration

Remove Default Output Format In Run As And/Or Run In Background Screens

The HTML output format is particularly unsuitable for batch/background runs, which are generally intended for downloading larger data sets for users to work with the data locally. Larger data sets cause the HTML output file size to balloon, and wo...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 certification for ISAM

The customer is looking for this technote to be updated with Cognos Analytics 11. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24022695 There current configuration is as follows: onfigured SSO from WebSeal 7.0.0.26 to Cognos v11.0.7 through IH...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Scheduling Feature Enhancements

Here are the key improvements we would like to the scheduling feature and capabilities: 1. We need the ability to limit all schedules to a minimum of 15 minute intervals. This means no report or agent can be scheduled for 1, 5, or 10 minute interv...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration