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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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Provide table function that collects DSN1COMP data

For sake of brevity, I will confine this request to DB2 index compression analysis, but it also applies to tablespaces. When have more than 100,000 indexes in our various Production DB2 systems. We want to know which of these indexes are the most ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Multi-Client Manager Change All Clients

When we use the multi-client manager, it only changes the classic clients (Designer, Director and Administrator). We would like it to change all clients including IBM InfoSphere Information Server Console and IBM InfoSphere Information Server Mana...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Once the Business Entity has been created a corresponding folder should be also automatically created

For easier moving of objects, once the Business Entity has been created, a corresponding folder should be also automatically created.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Not under consideration

Ability to change the Label of a linked data module

If a new data module is created, and an existing data module is added, it comes in as a link. Need the ability to change the labels of the linked-in data module. This would include changing the labels of the linked in data module itself as well as...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

XML Schema 1.1

DB2 PureXML does not support XML Schema Version 1.1, although it would be very useful. XML Schema Version 1.1 goes far to correct numerous inadequacies in XML Schema Version 1.0 for extensibility of data models in order to meet future needs.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

Add feature to role customization for creating report from package menu

We are missing the menu item called "Create report" when right clicking on a package or selecting the 3 vertical dots menu of a package. This is the only place left that a user can create a report that can't be customized in the new features custo...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change behaviour of duplicate entries in Range Lookups

When using a range lookup (range selected on the main stream) when matching e.g. a key column and range of date from/to you may get more than one hit for the key but the range on the date columns will make the lookup unique, in this case you still...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Remove CHAR Space Padding In ODBC Driver 4.10

Other drivers (Informix JDBC / Open Link etc) have the ability to automatically TRIM trailing spaces from character fields - we badly need the same feature applied to ODBC. We note that the VARCHAR / NVARCHAR equivalent has just been added to ODBC...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Generate DDL for implicitly created XML tables and tablespaces

Today Admin tool cannot really handle implicitly created XML tables and tablespaces very well. It's very obscure to really understand what parameters were used when creating the table or if they differ from the source table. Using OCT via GOCCMDDF...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Still include the Business Entity that is used for filtering options on the object grid

For example you have a business entity named BE1. BE1 has child business entity namely CBE1, CBE2, CBE3. When you use BE1 as Filter Option for the BE grid, you can only see CBE1,2 and 3. There should be an option for the BE1 to be included in the ...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Not under consideration