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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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Hide the parent selection on Create View when the parent is already selected

When we go the task view of an object, for example a Risk, on the task view if we have associated objects, for example, a Control. From here we can add a new control using the 'Add New' button. In this case on the create view of the Control, the p...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

14.10.FC6 multiple page sizes for temp dbspaces - intelligent use based on page size.

Intelligent use of temp dbspaces with multiple pages.
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Allow a Db2 z/OS Server to request clients set other JDBC Data Server Driver parameters, such as minTransportObjects or maxTransportObjects

In FL502 of Db2 13, IBM offers MODIFY DDF with the "RQSTWLB" option which allows the Db2 server to tell clients to enable Sysplex Workload Balancing (enableSysplexWLB=true) as long as the client doesn't explicitly set WLB to "false". It would be b...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Changing number of rows for Grid on Task view

Our customer requested that it would be useful if we can change the number of rows for Grid on Task view. Currently , it is fixed number like "Items per page: 10".
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Future consideration

Ability to delete / edit comments / Annotations in PASS

The ability to add comments / annotations to a Planning Analytics Cube cell is very useful. But sadly in PASS there is no ability to delete or edit these comments which limits how useful they are. Frustratingly both PAW and PAFE at least give user...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Superior approximation algorithm for finding Maximum (or large) Cliques in very large graphs. (Multi-Partite Graphs can be found)

Our maximum clique finding algorithm (that is polynomial in its run time) and which seems (from DIMACS benchmark tests) to run better than other methods that are presently available would be beneficial to IBM because it would allow you to solve co...
over 1 year ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

Fastmap (#7) - Import of Business Entity Selector type fields

Import of Business Entity Selector type fields must be possible specifying only the Business Entity Code, and not the complete path (folder).
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 2 Future consideration

Add generated always for each row on update as row change SESSION_USER

Currently exists in Db2 to change current timestamp on INSERT and UPDATE with generated statement like: create table myschema.mytable (id int, last_timestamp timestamp not null generated always for each row on update as row change timestamp) inser...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Backup/Restore GUI within HQ

One of the least enjoyable tasks is to using the archecker utility. Many times we need to restore just a row and/or rows in a table from an ontape backup. Restoring an entire database is easy from the command line. It would be very helpful if HQ c...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

QUIESCE utility: Add the functionality described in the REORG drain-spec to the QUIESCE utility

Currently the QUIESCE utility has no capability to mitigate its impact on end user application workloads like the REORG utility does via its drain-spec functionality.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration