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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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Add Addenda columns to the Gateway CSV files

Please add the following 2 columns to the Gateway CSV timing files: 1) # of Addenda records processed2) Sum of Items and Addenda processed
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 2 Not under consideration

Extra field details available to enter on creation

We would like to be able to enter the following field details at the point of creating a new field: 1) a field label (different to the field name)2) field level guidance3) global display type (eg. selecting text area rather than text box)
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Add New Wizard - option to limit to 1 parent object and only show valid primary parents

When creating objects, the add new wizard displays possible parent objects. However, it doesn't only show objects you can create the object from, it shows objects you may optionally associate to as well. This is confusing for the end user who is t...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Delivered

Can't implement security rules over files

We wanted to implement security rules over file object, but couldn't do so because:1) Record level read security rules cause the filtered list view to whizz & whirr for a while before failing.2) Field level security rules could work, if we cou...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Delivered

Ability to backup & restore individual services without needing to restore the entire namespace

With the exception of a few services, customers currently only have the ability to backup and restore the entire namespace. Customers require the ability to backup and restore individual services, rather than the current 'all-or-nothing' approach....
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Log something meaningful from the python symphony calls when something is missing

When an unexperienced symphony python developer trying to connect symphony via his python script (without knowing that he did not call function conn.create_session(sca) before making the connection call... the python script core dumped without giv...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Add option to use manage option SMSDSEXIST in ICKDSF for option : Reinit Space Efficient Volumes

Our site have an option to protect volumes with datasets from INIT with ICKDSF and when we run Recovery expert with option : Reinit Space Efficient Volumes it fail with messages : 09:58:46 ARYS278I - Task 01 - Unit 9A01 was initialized with volser...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 1 Delivered

Period Interval in Custom Reports to expand

current list of period intervals are YTD, 1,2,3,4,6,12 and NPY. It happens that user requires interval 5 & 7 and is unable to find, hence has to work out the interval 5 & 7 values in order to present in excel-linked report. Hence, user is ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

QMF - Add support for DB2 systems using RACF security RFE 78202

QMF has the following administrator check on product initialization:It is trying to insert or delete from Q.PROFILES table. If the insert/delete succeeded, then the user becomes "QMF Admin".Else, It is a regular QMF user. This check is based on ge...
about 10 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered

CPU affinity as LSF or compatibility with taskset

Good afternoon, we are currently working with MDS and multithreaded apps and have a question regarding cpu affinity or the possibility of adding specific information to taskset command while executing. When we are using cpuLimits, we see it works ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration