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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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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

MSK is looking for a native connector for Databricks on AWS.

We already have for Azure. We should have a native connector for AWS to avoid multi-step load/registration via S3 connector. More customers will be asking beyond MSK.
about 2 months ago in DataStage 0 Future consideration

Status change or pending DDL when adding a KEY LABEL to an existing table

When an existing table is altered to add a KEY LABEL to enable encryption on the table, the encryption only takes effect post a Reorg (effectively post a redefinition of the underlying VSAM datasets). So the alter is effectively incomplete until s...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Need to support inplace reorg on partitioned table with global indexes

This is critical in a 2 sense; 1) Performance The customer has many range-partitioned table with global indexes and most of them left unreorganized because INPLACE REORG on Inplace reorg on range-partitioned table with a global index is not suppor...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

Architect level security setup for cubes, dimensions and any connected object

It would be very helful and userfriendly if the user rights could be populated by dimensions as well. In Architect, if we opened cubes security and set the UserGroup rights for Cube, then the dimensions which contained by the cube also automatical...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

A DB cfg parameter to set the default tablespace to prevent objects ending up in the wrong TS

When not explicitly set in the CREATE TABLE statement, a newly created table will end up in the last created tablespace. A lot of customers have problems with this for several reasons. They have no control over table placement when using a framewo...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

Allow creation of table with column definition WITH DEFAULT CURRENT DATE - x DAYS

We have a requirement to create some new tables, where we load a CSV file in every day. The CSV file contains information from the IMS Performance Analyzer Tool, and is always 2 days behind the current date. It would be nice to have the option to ...
12 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Manage TM1 instance administration programatically (on cloud)

Currently on cloud, there is no way to manage the start/stop of TM1 servers programmatically. The only way to stop/start an instance is by going through PAW Administration or schedule an automatic restart by asking the cloud ops. On premise, we ha...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

Maintenance page instead of Cognos start page only for standard users, not for admins

If we have problems with Cognos, we want to withdraw access from all users except for admins so data / reports can be tested after successful repairs. The Cognos information banner does not help, because it is overlooked. Furthermore, users can by...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

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 3 Future consideration