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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 ability to secure tabs in a dashboard based on different security groups

We have different groups who likes to see similar dashboards but currently we have to create separate dashboards for each group due to data security issue and we would very much like to have a functionality available where we can secure a tab in t...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Indication of the reason for conversion by drop/create

In our environment, we try to execute all changes to DB2 tables online via Alter commands if possible. However, there are a lot of reasons why in some cases the Alter is not possible and as a consequence Admintool correctly chooses the conversion ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 4 Planned for future release

Primary Keys should allow NOT TRUSTED

Currently you can create NOT ENFORCED primary keys but the optimizer will then always treat these as trusted. This causes problems when the constraint is violated but a filter includes all PK columns since the engine will return only one row even ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 5 Not under consideration

Remove dependency on Trident Engine (IE/mshtml.dll) for IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office (Go Office)

Currently, the IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office (Go Office) continues to use Trident (IE/mshtml.dll) for authentication. For certain OIDC SSO setups, the use of Trident is causing incompatibility issues (such as Trident/IE being unable to handle ad...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Have the possibility to control the time range for the DSODB Dashboard.

Currently, we do not have any variable that can be set to control the DSODB Dashboard time range. The only existing way, is to manually update the value (3 times for the dashboard...), and this modification is only persisting for the session's coo...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Column width in cross tab or list report

Need ability to adjust column width in cross tab or list report
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need a utility to defragment large tables in a timely fashion when REORG is unable to reclaim space

Large, highly volatile, tables can become heavily fragmented when there is a significant amount of daily delete and insert activity. In some cases, the rows deleted don't leave enough empty space on a page for a REORG to clean up or reclaim that s...
10 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Future consideration

IBM CDC support on Orcale - AWS RDS

The request is to support the IBM CDC replication engine for Oracle - AWS RDS. In the specific case all pre. req. of Oracle XStreme and Oracle databases are supported by AWS and AWS RDS Oracle custom managed (Amazon RDS custom) are satisfy.
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

Informix Developer Edition MAC OS port for Apple Chipset M1/2

The current and future Informix Development Edition and the Advanced Development Edition should be available under Mac OS apple cpu. The MacBook's are very popular among pupils, students, and IT consultants. Run Informix Server at actual MacBook's...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add REMARKS column to SYSIBM.SYSDATABASE and COMMENT support for database object

We would like to ask you, to add the REMARKS column in SYSIBM.SYSDATABASE and support for COMMENT statement for databases. There is no possibility currently to store some form of a description for databases in DB2 catalog. In big sites where thous...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration