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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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Lock access plan for a query. Prevent the optimizer from changing a plan, once a "good" plan has been determined.

We see cases where a large query runs fine, and something changes the stats, which causes the optimizer to choose a really bad plan. We would like to be able to lock an individual query, and tell the optimizer: "Just use this plan".
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Expose API for managing enum values programatically

Currently, Tech team manages the Reference Data defined as Enum values. We would like to eliminate this IT dependency and would like to empower the business stake holders to be able to maintain the enum list. We also have downstream systems wantin...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Not under consideration

"Unpublishing" assets from catalog

Drop/Deleted tables are not updated (Not Marked as deleted) in the catalog after publishing it. Below requirement needs to be enhanced Propose: 1If we are publishing removed (status = removed from source) asset from project to catalog, it should d...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Provide a Security Apex / Consumer Root for Cognos Analytics

With IBM Cognos 10.x administrators had the option to set a a consumer root / security apex for their users. This allowed administrators to have an area in which the could stage releases while users only saw an specific area of the environment. Co...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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

Display Report in the Business Analytics Dashboard tab. Share the same Report between Dashboards.

Display and share reports created using new report authoring environment in the Dashboards.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Would love to see a containerized version of the CDC Kafka agent made available

A container image of the CDC Kafka agent that I could deploy would be so handy.
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

View and subset counter

We would like to add the functionality to count how many times a view and a subset is used/opened. Users are creating a lot of different subsets and views and it can sometimes be difficult to navigate in the menus due to this. At the moment it's h...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Db2 zOS: Provide support for period-clause FOR PORTION OF BUSINESS_TIME for update operation within MERGE statement

Idea is to extend functionality of MERGE statement in Db2 z/OS by providing support for the period clause FOR PORTION OF BUSINESS_TIME for an update operation (and delete operation) within the MERGE statement. The statement would look like this: ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration