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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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MGMTCLASS is not adopted by LISTDEF

MGMTCLASS is not adopted by LISTDEF USE CASE: //SYSIN DD * TEMPLATE COPYTEM1 DSN('DBQ1F.&DB..&SN..N&DSNUM..&UQ.') MGMTCLAS FCRET10
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow clickable RTF/HTML links within popup error message

Currently we can populate OP custom application strings with modified messages for error popups. However any embedded HTML tags do not work (they appear as plain text in the error popup). We need the error popups to be configurable with RTF fields...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

byte and text partitioning

Ability to partition byte and text data stored in blobspace. Eg. create table table1 (,,, colx byte in (blobspc1, blobspc2) ) ... This allows the byte/text data to be partitioned across multiple blobspace so that the blobspace size will not be sk...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

PAW: Annotate visualizations

It would be great if the visualizations could be commented. At the moment this is not possible.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Password requirements

The IT security policy in many organizations have detailed requirements regarding password complexity and how this is handled. The complexity of passwords set up in Controller is not enough. Except what's already possible to limit regarding pw in ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Allow Adding of Existing Element to New Hiearchy

When creating a new hierarchy, or editing an existing hierarchy, you can't add an existing element (one that you created previously and exists in the Leaves hierarchy, or another hierarchy). It complains that it 'already exists' even though it DOE...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Is a defect

Backup Db2 to on premisses S3 API devices (ie. EMC ECS)

Backup Db2 databases to low cost object storage devices such as EMC ECS using the S3 API. The current implementation of the S3 interface only works for a small list of known S3-style endpoints. (ie....s3.amazonaws.com, softlayer.net). This would ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Provide Filter Selection available in FLV within an Activity View listing

Ability to specify and apply a filter within an Activity View listing. Scrolling thru numerous objects in a list within Activity View is not user-friendly. A filtering capability such as exists today in the OP 7 product would be very useful.
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

Admin: Allow to configure Lock/Unlock at Object/Profile level

The Lock/Unlock permission is at a application level. We would like to be able to selectively allow/block that capability by Object Type and/or Profile. There are numerous cases where there exists a need to have more granular control of this feature.
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Admin: Allow ability to allow View-only of configuration settings vs. Edit for all

Today if you have access to a particular Administration function, you are able to edit that function. We would like to be able to have a setting that can limit edit capabilities, but allow View of these settings.
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration