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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Ability to relate records in same object

We would like the ability to relate/associate records in the same object. For example, we'd like to relate "Issue-1" to "Issue-2" when maybe they don't share a common parent. In this case, we may want to relate them because they are the same issue...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

PAW Exploration View Custom Column Headings

PAW Exploration view, would like the ability to construct custom column heading names and arrange for cleaner reporting display. Often using a stacked column dimensions, the column heading may show repeated elements, or displaying stacked colum...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Automate the clean up of orphan rows in the database catalogs during the db2ckupgrade processing.

We have been dealing with orphan rows in the database catalogs for many years now. The first tool to deal with this was db2cleancat and it has gone through various iterations to address all of the various flavors of this type of issue and now has ...
5 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Add SQL-statement COMMENT ON as in Oracle or PostgreSQL

For some tables or columns it would be helpful to describe what the table/column is used for since the names are not always self-explanatory. Although COMMENT ON is not part of standard SQL it would be helpful to have such a statement. The DOCUMEN...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 6 Future consideration

Select color coding

Need the ability to set colors for specific data items consistently from tile to tile.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Port Cognos to ARM for Windows

ARM processors are the future. ARM processors provide significant infrastructure savings in large farms of servers.
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Enhancement Request for User Roles in IBM Planning Analytics

Dear IBM Planning Analytics Team, I am writing to propose an enhancement to the user roles within IBM Planning Analytics. Currently, administrative roles in IBM PA possess comprehensive privileges across all aspects of the system. However, this...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Add a platform-level connector for Microsoft Azure Fabric lakehouse

We would like to establish the connection between WKC and Microsoft Azure fabric lakehouse. The purpose is to pull the metadata from this MS platform and catalog using IBM's WKC platform. This is the top need of our business. We would like to have...
7 months ago in Connectivity 3 Planned for future release

DMC - "Other Waits" detail graphic needs to be dynamic and smarter

DMC v3.1.12 decided to create a fixed bucket named "Other Times" under "Other Waits" main category on Database Time Spent monitor page.. Please see attached screen-shot. In the main graphic, we can see "other Waits" is the most contributor. And in...
8 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

A way to see who is logged in to PAW

If you have planned a PAW downtime for maintenance and you want to check if there are still users logged in, you have no way to do so. You can check the threads of a database, but this is not feasible when you have multiple databases. Regarding "c...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration