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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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Inherit data security in datasets from packages and data modules based on data connections

When a data set is created based on a data module or package, the data security access rights of the originator (package/data source or datamodule/data source) are not inherited. Therefore carefully set data access on dataconnection and package le...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reorg Shrlevel CHANGE for Tables with Index on Expression Index

Currently a REORG shrlevel CHANGE is not possible on UTS tablespaces which have an expression Index (Index on Expression) defined to them. the message below gets issued: DSNU076I DSNURFIT - KEYWORD=SHRLEVEL CHANGE INVALID FOR EXPRESSION-BASED INDE...
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Under review

Show tooltips in the Dashboard metadata tree for FM Packages

Tooltips created in Framework Manager are very useful for explaining the meaning of data items and query subjects to the end user. They appear in the Reporting UI metadata tree, but don't appear in the Dashbaord UI metadata tree. This should be co...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Merge Excel , CSV with OLAP sources (TM1/SAP BW)

Merging someone's personal data file with corporate data sources is quite a common requirement from all businesses. Cognos Analytics Data Modules is a very good answer to this requirement. However OLAP datasources are not included. But users like ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data input autosaving/submit in PAW websheet without pushing a button

Global configuration ( either at the PASS level or at the websheet level) for activation and deactivation of a direct commit after an end user has inputted data into a websheet like comments or value-data on a leaf level. Currently the user has to...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Not Able to Rename - Data Set Column

Problem : Not able to rename any column in Data set. Cognos Analytics Version 11.0.9. When a chart is created using a Dataset, it shows all business names. To Rename a data set column, we have to do a extra step of creating a Data Module from Data...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Import query subjects with prompts

We want to request query subjects from Cognos Analytics in Jupyter notebooks and use them as a data basis for analyses and ML methods. Currently, all query subjects that expect user input (prompts/filter) are excluded. This currently leads to cons...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability To Create a Data source/server connection to Dremio

we have some tenants who are connecting to Dremio via tableau. They want to move to cognos and are inquiring if cognos would connect to Dremio. I did not find Dremio in the drop down when creating a new data server connection or Data source connec...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Delivered

Allow placement of tablespace BYTE and TEXT data in a separate dbspace from the table's base row data.

Allow specifying a normal dbspace for a BYTE or TEXT column to isolate IOs for the blob data from main row data for the table. This would be logged space just like IN TABLE as opposed to IN blobspace blob pages.
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DMC - Encryption of the AES128 key at rest

In IBM Db2 DMC, For the AES128 encryption key that is used to encrypt all the keystore pwd, DB2 and Service Account credentials, there is a security finding on the Insecure storage of data encryption keys – i.e. the AES128 DEK is stored unencrypte...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Under review