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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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Automation of Optim LOAD generator

Currently, we are using the Optim LOAD panel to generate load based on Optim extract files, to create samples of the database. Each time, we have to browse a sequence of panels to generate the different load jobs . The final output is a JCL that p...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration

Planning Analytics: Dynamic variance calculation on "displayed" members in a view

In an exploration, there is the possiblity to add a member calculation to calculate a variance between two elements.However, these elements have to be manually picked and a "hard-coded" formula is then generated.We want to have the possibility to ...
about 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

DMC - Display Fine Grained Access Control (FGAC) values of Column Masks and Row Permissions for each Table

This would be a useful feature to allow DBAs to not have to leave the DMC tool and use a different tool to verify the FGAC items are in place for various tables in a Database. The DSM tool had a Tab FGAC that would display the FGAC values in place...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Track REORGs with SHRLEVEL NONE

We do not want anyone to run a REORG with SHRLEVEL NONE. If they do we might end up with big problems, especially if it abends or we have to terminate it. We see no reason to use SHRLEVEL NONE with REORG any more unless it is a huge tables that ca...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Wrap Dims in PAX

Hi, my DB has 21 dimensions. Therefore in Planning Analytics Excel that means my users do not have a FULL view of all the selections in all the dimensions in their exploration view. They have to click left and right in the Overview window pane and...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Launch Citrix Receiver Session on Full Screen Mode by default

In order to allow our users to be able to access Cognos Controller from home, we are implementing WVD (Windows Vitrual Desktop), but it seems to have a compatibility issue with the IBM Citrix DPI settings, because when the users maximize the Contr...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Improve search function Name - with double spacing

Names with two or more words and double space between them will in not be visible on the screen, one would have to export to Excel to see the extra space. In our case we have a lot of Names similar to each other, and searching for only first or la...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Bulk metadata import and bulk business term and data class update in the WKC UI

Stewards and WKC Admins need the ability to bulk update business and technical metadata information, e.g. descriptions and names, from a UI using a CSV file. Should be able to use a CSV file specifying the category and artifact name (not the guid)...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Support PostgreSQL for PERF Database

Need this in Symphony 7.3.1 Currently Symphony PERF DB can be configured to use MS SQL Server, Oracle and DB2. PostgreSQL is a powerful open source object-relational database that uses and extends SQL combined with many features that safely store ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Enable sampling for RUNSTATS

Currently RUNSTATS for non-Db2 virtual tables or virtual views will pull all data from the map and then calculate the stats values. When millions of records are present, the process begins to exceed the subsystem limits on cpu and memory. We would...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration