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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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REBIND allocated plan

Before going to Db2 13 we have to rebind some plans that were last bound in Db2 10. We have also previously got the recommendation to rebind all plans when we have migrated to a new Db2 version. We have a problem with plans that are always allocat...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Ability to exclude PBR partitions/TS PBG that had no activity before JCL generation

Recovery Expert should have an option to exclude objects/partitions from the recovery which had no activity. Even though this would be caught by the Recover Utility, why build JCL that contains TS/Partitions which would not be recover. This causes...
2 months ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Under review
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+/- buttons for column grouping

The ability to group columns in Cognos would be a great feature which is a small thing but a missing element compared to MS Reporting services reporting. https://oxen.tech/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/grouping.gif In fact the (+)/(-) buttons used wi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Please replace "password rules" by "password evaluations"

When installing GKLM, I am asked to provide a password for DB2, that contains 2 digits, a special, a minor and a major character. (This is not the case for GSKLM.) I tell our customers about "quantum safe", long passwords and they are forced to dr...
22 days ago in Db2 / Security 1 Submitted

Lock when editing a skill

Locking a skill when somebody is editing it avoids conflict between users, opening a skill at the same time, and trying to apply modifications.
22 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Bowtie visualization that also allow user to associate and disassociate objects in it.

Allowing users to have a bowtie visualization of the risk and the associated object(e.g. cause and consequences) at the same time allow user to disassociates/associate or update some preconfiged fields through this visualization.
23 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Under review

Add support for CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW syntax

I've seen that Db2 LUW and other types of databases support the syntax to do CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW. This can be useful as you don't have to have a separate statement to drop a view before rerunning a create statement. I had a new DB2 DBA on our t...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Hide/show/enable/disable dashboard filter bar based on custom role/group or setting

We have a scenario where the dashboard author would like end users to interact with the dashboard but not allow them to change any filters in the filters bar so that the user experience is consistent. This is helpful in a scenario where if the aut...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Applications and Plans: Navigation Pane Collapse/Expand show selected asset

When using an application a user will shrink up the navigation panel to gain more space when planning in an asset/book. When finished with that asset/book, they then open the navigation panel again, and the first section is expanded, not the activ...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review

Dashboard filter bar should allow single select or multi select, optional or mandatory

The filters available in the All Tabs / This Tabs area of dashboards are multi-select only. We often have dimensions, that if a user filters on multiple values, will produce an invalid result. Some examples include currency - if you select multipl...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted