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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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implicit GRANT EXECUTE to SYSMON authority for all monitor routines(RIMS)

Customer has to grant the EXECUTE privilege on the monitoring functions to a user who already has the SYSMON authority. They would expect that a user of the SYSMON_GROUP holds this privilege implicitly. This looks like a restriction to the monitor...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring / Security 1 Not under consideration

OPTIMIZER IGNORE INDEX indexcreator.indexname

Looking to replace NPI with DPSI. DSPI is created, and would like to verify that all SQLs that were using NPI, when Rebound/executed dynamically would either a) use either newly created DPSI or another index on the table and b) have run time perfo...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provide a Prometheus exporter for Informix

Many organizations use unified approach to collecting, storing and visualizing metrics from various sources using at least one of the few established platforms of which Prometheus+Grafana are probably the most prominent. It would be very beneficia...
almost 5 years ago in Informix 1 Not under consideration

Auto fit of PAW objects

Auto fit of the view of PAW objects- charts, cubes doesn't work.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Sort order of workbooks

In the PAW portal you can sort books by name, last changed, created date, the problem is that the selected setting does not stick the next time users log in.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show sub totals in PAX and PAW similar to Pivot table

We need the ability to to somehow configure planning analytics (for excel) to show sub totals for the consolidations for selected dimensions in the rows? To be more precise: Let's assume we selected two dimensions in the rows and want to see the s...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

possibility to add a column at the partition clause without dropping the table

We would like to have the possibility to modify the PARTITIONING clause without DROPPING the table, with an ALTER COMMAND
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Create ability to add "delete" and "Disassociate" buttons on embedded Gridviews

Currently in the new OpenPages UI you can create Add Object buttons and Associate Object buttons on the embedded Grid views. For example, you are in a Test Plan and want to add a Test Result object. You can add a button right on the grid view to a...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 4 Not under consideration

32k limit creating Data Group in Data Module

There is a 32k limit on number of items shown when creating Data Group in IBM Cognos Analytics Data Module. The limitation also includes the ability to search items outside the first 32k. So basically, if you have a data source with more than 3200...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Joined queries do not respect Prompt Type Settings from Framework Manager when creating a Prompt page

When you create a prompt page from a list with a single query it respects the Prompt Type settings of the data item in Framework Manager e.g. Generated Prompt. However, if you join 2 queries together, and used the joined query, it does not and jus...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration