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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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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

Do not Reset Tab to Default Settings upon Return

On a given tab (original tab), consider If you have navigated to a specific section and uncollapsed the section. Then, the user clicks on another tab (next tab). Upon return to the original tab, the user has to navigate to the same specific sectio...
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

MDM 11.6 and 12.x compatibility checking with OCP 4.14

ICICI Bank has planned to upgrade their OCP platforms from OCP 4.12 to OCP 4.14 and wanted to know whether their existing MDM setup ( MDM 11.6 and MDM 12.x) can be supported on OCP 4.14 platform. However current IBM MDM product release document fo...
5 months ago in Master Data Management 2 Submitted

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

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

Select color coding

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

Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

db2look with -printdbcfg must support parameters with "automatic" value

To clone a database and all its objects IBM recommend to use the db2look utility. If you use the -printdbcfg to clone the db configuration too the db2look utility generate the parameter values in the update commands but without the "automatic" val...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

New Db2 ZPARM for specifying SMS storage & management classes for FlashCopy image copies

When doing FlashCopy image copies the Db2 utilities create image copies by ADRDSSU and it passes the same SMS storage & management classes as the Db2 spaces.This is not always wanted as the performance and management requirements are in most c...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

PAW - Subset behavior

PAW can only refer to an element name of a subset and not to index . If in a paw book we use a named subset that presents the current month , for example MAR from a subset that contains MAR FEB JAN if the next month we update the subset with APR,M...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration