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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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Modify redirected recovery to recover FROM tablespace where you can SELECT/UNLOAD and not require RECOVERAUTH.

The relatively new Db2 utility enhancement of redirected recovery is very useful When recovering a target tablespace from another tablespace one must essentially have database RECOVERAUTH on the source tablespace and the target tablespace. (please...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

Double-Clicking on cube should open the default view, not the first private view

We set default views in our cubes for a reason, as they are the view we want to see the majority of the times when we open the cube. The issue with Planning Analytics for Excel is that double clicking the cube is opening the first private view sav...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Option to get a warning if strings are truncated during an insert

There should be an option to get a warning if strings are truncated during an insert. Especially this warning is needed when a string is inserted using the functionality of encyption. If the encrypted string is truncated during insertion, the reco...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Functionality already exists

Request to add more stages in DFD Palette

We'd like to request for additional stages, "DRS connector" and "Checksum" stages in the web-based DFD (Data Flow Designer). Currently our ETLs are using those stages and not available in the DFD interfaces. It's not urgent but in near future if w...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Allow non Admin users to Publish to PAw

I have a report writing team that is creating and updating reports for PAw that are PAx based. They are not Admins, so they have to get an Admin to publish for them when they want to update a report. This is slowing things down. We need the abilit...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Predefined data classes should be leveraged for automatic business term assignment

Per our documenation, "Business terms that are linked to the predefined data classes Code, Identifier, Date, Text, Indicator, Quantity, and Boolean are not considered for term assignment". A large Federal customer requests the ability to leverage ...
8 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Partial PBG REORG for added Partitions due to previous PART LEVEL REORGs

When I run a PART LEVEL REORG of a PBG tablespace and the current data doesn't fit into its original partition DB2 adds a new partition at the end and uses it for the "overflow" data. Which is fine, btw.... If i do this for multiple partitions, se...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

CP4D - Need API for Zen database to collect user and group information

As per the UIOLI process, we need to pull user, group and last accessed timestamp of a user for CP4D. This is inline with case #TS015500667, we are able to see the required information of users and groups in ZEN database. Now, we want to know if t...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 4 Functionality already exists

OpenPages UI Tooltip to show field-specific info when mouse hover over a field in an object view

Customer requested this feature. End users would like to see additional info explaining the current field they are about to fill out in an OpenPages object record. End users would to mouse hover over a field and get hints and additional details to...
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Functionality already exists

Always show properties pane

In Cognos 10 and prior, when opening a report in edit mode -- you always had the properties pane available and didn't have to do anything - it was just there. In Cognos 11, when opening a report in edit mode -- if you want to change a property (sa...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists