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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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Ability for admin to delete fields from the UI

Fields are often created in error or are no longer in use but they can never be deleted from OpenPages. This causes a lot of confusion in the administation screens. Admins should be able to at least hide these fields from their views
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Return SQL error when DBA attempts ALTER DDL with both pending and immediate changes, instead of returning "0" and "losing" a change.

We recently opened an SR TS005591497 with support when we found that an ALTER to a LOB tablespace specifying both PRIQTY and COMPRESS returned SQLCODE 0, but the PRIQTY was "lost". IBM support pointed out the following: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Is a defect

Association access control by security rule on the child object

Association access control by security rule on the child object, for now, in OpenPages, it only works with parent object, it would be nice that we can restrain association access on the child object as well.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Not under consideration

Add a parameter to disable "unpopulated cells" spreads

The spread types "Repeat leaves" and "Equal leaves" have very dangerous options to spread to all leaf cells instead of populated ones. In a large cube with many dimensions containing many elements, the number of empty cells to write on jumps very ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

PA for Excel: Drag and Drop option in Set Editor

Possibility to move elements in Set Editor via drag and drop would make work much easier.
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add options to Run and Save after selecting "Try It" when editing a Data Module

When editing a Data Module, after selecting "Try It", there is no option for Run options, View, Run, or Save. As it is now, you have to save the Data Module, then from the Welcome screen, select Edit Report from the action menu.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable Property "Maximum execution time" for DQM in Reporting and Framework Manager Governors

The feature is for Cognos Analytics on Cloud and Prem. Property "Maximum execution time" in Cognos Reporting and Framework Manager Governors works in CQM mode. It does not work in DQM mode, This property need be tuned to work in DQM mode. Additi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add '#'-sign as comment identifier in dbaccess

To make migration from ISQL sql scripts towards dbaccess scripts easier it would be benificial that dbaccess would support the '#' as comment lidentifier. This identifier is accepted in ISQL and 4GL and it would be great if dbaccess would also sup...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DISPLAY PROCEDURE add ability to filter started/stopped procedures

the current -DISPLAY PROCEDURE only allows to display all procedures with a scope of group or local, in all statuses. The ability to filter on procedures that are in a particular state would be significant for error checking and system up time.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard - Ability to Modify or Hide the Standard Templates

When you go to create a Dashboard you are presented with a blank template. It has no header/footer on it. As a government agency we need to have specific headers and footers for compliance reasons. You can use the Text Widget to create labels to a...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration