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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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Online restore of a range partition. Db2 takes a lock on the whole table during the restore.

I have a range partition table with NO global indexes. The partitions have their own tablespaces. Db2 takes a Z lock on the whole table when restoring a single partition.We thought that we could restore a partition online and that all the other pa...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

PAfE: TM1RPTROW Function, Option to disable the hidden repeated nested rows

We found multiple case where the consultants and users are not aware of the feature that hides repeated titles for nested rows when the report publish to TM1Web. I think adding a parameter to enable/disable this feature on any level (TM1Web config...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Implementing setting Forbid the orphans (false/true)

Since current version (IBM OpenPages on Cloud) doesn't prevent creation of orphan object from being removed from their only parent in order to consistently ensure data integrity it is suggested to implement System setting called Forbid the orphans...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Full HDR switch between primary and secondary with a single command and without any downtime

We have 2 servers with 2 HDR instances each. For each cluster we have also 2 connection manager each. On server one there is the primary of cluster 1 and the secondary of cluster 2 On server two there is the primary of cluster 2 and the secondary ...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DB2 HADR Standby Database act as CDC Source

We use DB2 ,DB2 HADR and CDC in our production system. Now we can only use the DB2 HADR primary database as CDC source. DB2 HADR standby database can not support acting as CDC source now. So we hope add a new feature,ie : DB2 HADR Standby database...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Not under consideration

Add ipv6 capability to CDC.

Please add support to the z/OS CDC system started task that runs on the mainframe which is the Db2 replication source. The target is Oracle and we already have the Linux CDC instance working with IPv6 to Oracle. We are requesting the IPv6 protocol...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Disable Add New Button in Grid View for specific Profiles.

Current settings "Disable Add New Global Launch Point" gives the possibility to disable Add New button for listed objects but this settings apply to all Profiles. it would be helpful if it were possible to specify, for each object, also which prof...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Future consideration

PAX and Cognos Packages with Calculations

Planning Analytics for Excel does NOT support the use of Calculation Objects from a Cognos BI Package. Please have PAX support Calculation Objects .
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create conditional style on Dashboards.

It is not possible to create conditional style on Dashboards.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to re-create views and procedures without dependent objects being dropped

Some objects in a database often depend on other. As an example, if there is a view, another view can be built upon it.Private and public synonyms can be created for those views, and permissions given to various users on those views.If the first v...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration