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


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Applications and Plans: Ability to assign individual users to a Task

Currently PAW Plans and Applications only have the option to assign security groups as Contributors and Approvers, whereas we have the need to have the option to also assign individual users in the same way that individual users can be assigned to...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

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

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing.

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing. - Which statistics were looked at - Relative costs for table scan/index usage - Why a given index is not used - Which join orders are considered - Why join orders are excluded from t...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

IBM Data Management Console scheduled reports in PDF format

Currently the "Create scheduled report" only allows a URL of the report to be sent out in an email. This is to request a PDF attachment option made available so that users can access it directly in their emails instead of logging on to DMC to view...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Expand the scope of TRANSFER OWNERSHIP DDL

The TRANSFER OWNERSHIP DDL should also be applied to stored procedures, triggers, functions, constraints, global variables, sequences, etc.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Future consideration

Better documentation on syscdr database

One might find it hard to understand and troubleshoot ER without proper knowledge and/or documentation. We should have better and detailed documentation about the syscdr database and its tables and views.
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Pipeline Explicit Compile Option on GUI

Pipeline Compilation Option (Similar to 11.7) It's observed that there's no explicit Compile option for Pipeline (Sequencer). It helps to check the changes made to the stages are correct and compiled, before running the job. On 11.7 - it allows to...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

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 ...
9 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 2 Submitted

Select color coding

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

Allow Notebooks to be deployed to Deployment Space

The inconsistency of what can be deployed to a Space seems in need of attention. We should be able to deploy a Jupyter Notebook to a deployment space. We have been using notebooks as job controllers in a sense, for datastage flows/pipelines, and b...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 1 Submitted