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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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Allow EBCDIC collation for column organize tables

Db2 does not support anh collation other than IDENTITY or IDENTITY_16BIT per this link - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=to-restrictions-limitations-unsupported-database-configurations-column-organized-tables. Customers who are wanting ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

Db2 partitioned table, set range of partitions to read only or read write mode

Table data is partitioned as specified in the PARTITION BY clause of the CREATE TABLE statement.At this moment if we create partitioned table, we can only set whole table to read only access using SET INTEGRITY FOR table OFF READ ACCESSor let it b...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Format possibilities of summation accounts in Controller Web Free forms.

While doing Data Entry it is important for the user to know what type of information the different cells holds. One area of making this self explanatory is to use color coding. For instance having all summation accounts in a specific color. By doi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Option to rename column headers in Dashboard object table

We use a table to display a Top 5 list based on a count on a date field. We would like to rename the column header "Date of Login (Timestamp)" to somethin more meaningful, as this column contains a count value. This is not possible.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

For sysprocplan add ability to view the plan

For sysprocplan add ability to view the plan. This would allow more visibility into how plans change when they do change.
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Add object names to onstat -k output

Add object names to onstat -k output this should include partition part name where apropriate.
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Under review

Allow hidden Fields in visualizations for sorting

Currently the product allows a user to sort visualizations Ascending, Descending or Custom. The custom sort allows the user to pick the values. If user views the report in another language, then the custom sort is no longer respected. The model co...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Improve Stored Procedures features

We are trying to increase the usage of SP in our system environment. Migrating business code from 4GL to the database.But this process becomes very painful for our developers since the support for SPL is limited. Mainly the inexistence of a native...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Automation for offline backup

My client Bombardier is running CP4D (4.8.0) on ARO with NFS storage. As per the documentation offline backup is the only way and it is a manual process. Automation is limited. The objective is to minimize the manual processes and potential errors...
7 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Need for IBM multimodal models, that will enable us to compete with Google and Microsoft.

Need for IBM multimodal models, that will enable us to compete with Google and Microsoft.
7 months ago in watsonx.ai 1 Submitted