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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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Data Module- Dynamic Data Item Screen Tip

Automate Screen tip for data items in the Data Module so the developers do not have to manually type a text under Screen tip for data items. An enhanced option would allow a developer to select a data item field under Screen tip properties in Data...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Add saved report outputs to search

Add existing saved report outputs to Cognos Search. They should be indexed and made available so contents of generated HTML-, Excel- PDF-, csv- and xml-files can be found via Cognos Search. There should also be an option to enable/disable search w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add functionality level

Similar to DB2 z/OS Functional Levels and SQL Server Database Compatablity Level add ability to do the same for new features in newer versions of Informix. At least compared to the previous version. This allows more confidence for upgrades. This w...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support for Bind avoidance when using Enterprise Cobol with co-processor

The basic idea of Bind Avoidance is to exchange the consistency token in the executing code from the current version to the previous which means that no package bind will be necessary. Traditionally the Db2 pre-compiler has been used to pre-proces...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Ability to Update Banner/Titles

Requesting the ability to update the banner/titles within the Planning Analytics Workspace interface. At the top of the screen, there is the logo in the top left and the title "IBM Planning Analytics Workspace. Speed. Agility. Foresight". We would...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

need to provide a RENAME SCHEMA statement (other database products provide this)

Need RENAME SCHEMA other databases other than DB2 LUW (i.e. MaxDB from SAP) provide a statement RENAME SCHEMA to rename a schema like a RENAME TABLESPACE/TABLE/INDEX. Needed on all supported operating systems.
about 10 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Making Historical Intervals accurate

At TOM there is some very useful views for Historical. And there is a way to create/alter sampling intervals and customer wants to choose 1 minute intervals as the most detailed view. This makes sense in the development where the price to pay is w...
9 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IF Statement w/out ELSE

Would be great to have the ability to end an IF statement after condition is met. e.g. IF (_add_months([$System Fields:Last Modified Date$],6) >= [$TODAY$] THEN “Dormant”, ELSE <Do Nothing> ENDIF If we set it to what it was already (“In P...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Index for a subset of rows

Possibility to index only specific rows of one or more columns. This could be implemented with a WHERE clause in the index create statement and would rsult in a tiny index for exactly the rows you are interested in.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

add data masking as option for object security in Framwork Manager and Data Module

Having Data Masking available as security option for object security in Framework Manager and the Data Module allows us to set the visibility of a certain attribute in a report or dashboard for specific user groups, as defined in the security of C...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration