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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.

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externalize generic runstats information for XML columns in SYSCAT.COLUMNS

Currently RUNSTATS does not store generic statistical results for XML columns in SYSCAT.COLUMNS - as it does for other data types -, like numnulls etc.This information in SYSCAT.COLUMNS is used for administrative, automated tasks worldwide, but ca...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 2 Future consideration

upload images as capability for users, not only for admin

Have the option to upload images (extension) as a reporting and dashboarding creator so self-service users are again less dependant from the administrator. This option should be a capability so the administrator can allow or deny this to different...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow configuration of minimum and maximum value caps for attributes.

Output attribute values are currently only limited by the byte length defined, which allows very limited control over the values delivered downstream from Safer Payments. As a result, our team has to build individual rules for each attribute needi...
7 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Show Brand Icon in app bar

In CA 11.1.7 there was a brand icon in the appbar which was visible on every page. In CA 11.2 onwards this icon is missing and you can only see the brand icon on the startpage. As soon as you navigate to another page there is no brand icon visible...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Supply RACF Exit IRREVX01 to fail commands against Db2 classes that don't have the proper syntax.

As encountered in Case TS013914362, invalid profiles would not be created that could leave unused records in the RACF data base and also confuse Db2 when RACF notifies Db2 to refresh the cached profiles. All Db2 for z/OS users utilizing RACF could...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Exporting Stories as a Powerpoint

Since creating a Story looks a bit like creating a powerpoint, a few customers asked me whether it is possible to create a powerpoint file from a Story or Guided Journey (Prezi?).
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Instantiated temp tables with full functionality

The SAP data dictionary supports the creation of temp tables. This allows application developers to speed up the processing by temporarily storing result sets of queries in the database and later process them. The data is only kept until commit. T...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Rebuild BLU columnar dictionaries and recompress data in BLU columnar tables

An engineered capability is required to automatically rebuild an optimal BLU columnar compression dictionary and recompress BLU columnar tables. A technique is needed to easily rebuild and recompress columnar tables like we have for adaptive compr...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

Segregate stored files

OpenPages should segregate systems files from user uploaded files in the file system.
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 2 Under review

Multilingual support for objects in Workspace

<As-Is> Currently, objects such as folders and books in Workspace are not compatible with multiple languages, so it is not possible to realize a mechanism that is compatible between Japanese-speaking users and English-speaking users. In ad...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration