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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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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Add ability to grant 'connect' to database to a role instead of just an individual user

I would like to see the ability to grant 'connect' on the database to a role as you can in Oracle and DB2. It seems counterproductive to ease administration by allowing object grants to a role and then forcing individual grants to connect to the d...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Need enhancement in product to be able to have entry fields to be able to specify for NPSI objects CARDF limit to select partitions, such as only reorg up to 100M rows using RTS LASTREORGTIME

Had to develop REXX code to prune the 7B row NPSI TS to 100M row per execution. Product should handle this.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

ADBPCRR - Saved Compare Results missing numerous information that is on GOC2CMP Report

Not all objects on the Compare Report are on the Saved Compare Results. Don't know who uses the Saved Compare Results but if that is there, it should have all objects that are on the report.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

OTF support in Cognos products

Cognos does not support OTF fonts while this would be required by some companies who possess only OTF fonts in their portfolio of CI
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Automátic column-level encryption at rest

In Europe we have strong laws (GDPR) protecting personal data. Nobody, even programers or DBA can access personal data if not from an audited program who grants individual access to each user able to see this information. As application examples, ...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DB2 database in a read only mode

Ability to place a DB2 database in a read only mode for a period of time. Out side of the "db2 set write suspend for database" or a quiesce.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Aprove or Reject comparison of Reports in LifeCycle Manager

After running a comparison of a report in LifeCycle Manger (LCM) we have seen a number of reports fail on some cosmetic differences.In the previous versions (version 10.2 or older) we were able to use a feature in LCM whereby we could Approve or R...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Not show a null value in picklist for TM1 Web and TM1 Applications Web

Hello, When we make use of picklists, in TM1 Web in a picklist dropdown we see first a blank element and afterwards the picklist elements. If we chek the behaviour of the same picklist in TM1 Perspectives, we do not see the blank element. we only ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Cloud On Demand Disabling Admin Access to Standerd user

Hi, We have purchased premium and Stranded users of Cognos Analytics Cloud on demand 12.0.1 version. I have created users who need to run dashboard and reports. I created this user as a Standard user. Once i logging from this user i can see,he is ...
11 months ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

FastMap parallelism in uploading data must be managed internally by the product with no actions by the user

Actually if the user wants to upload data files in parallel he has to start multiple uploads instances. The request is that the product takes one data file prepared by the user, and manages the parallelism internally, starting more threads so gett...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review