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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 SQL-statement COMMENT ON as in Oracle or PostgreSQL

For some tables or columns it would be helpful to describe what the table/column is used for since the names are not always self-explanatory. Although COMMENT ON is not part of standard SQL it would be helpful to have such a statement. The DOCUMEN...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 6 Future consideration

Show IDAA data in TEP

In E3270 mode it's possible to view (detailed) IDAA theads. In TEP there's nothing like that. However, there is some IDAA data available, so we created an own view, but it would be nice to have this default delivered as it is in E3270.
about 1 year ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to change label of enumerated string value in the object

More straighforward to get this capability where the field label can be edited
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Planning Analytics for Excel - UI for DefineCalc function

Hello, the DefineCalc function in Pafe is intended to enable the end user to create their own calculations. However, not every user is able to understand the MDX syntax, therefore a power user, TM1 developer is necessary for the definition. In ord...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Maintenance page instead of Cognos start page only for standard users, not for admins

If we have problems with Cognos, we want to withdraw access from all users except for admins so data / reports can be tested after successful repairs. The Cognos information banner does not help, because it is overlooked. Furthermore, users can by...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Prebuilt row count function on Cognos Report

We've noticed a challenge with our reports: users often need to gauge the scope of the data they're dealing with, which currently isn't straightforward in Cognos Reporting. While our reports can generate outputs ranging from 10,000 to 3 million re...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

In Pafe Slicing from the Cube Viewer should have more options or configurable defaults.

At the moment when slicing from the Pafe cube viewer you always get a worksheet added to the existing book. When slicing direct from a view in the task pane you get multiple options (new sheet, new book, at selected cell). We would prefer to be ab...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restore of online backup taken with older Db2 version

Current product limitation don't allow to restore an online database backup that were taken with a older Db2 level than the on of the Db2 instance . Our production environement must be available on a 24x7 basis and this limitation is a serious lim...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

HIPAA compliant for Watsonx.ai

We have some of the Health System customers looking for Gen AI solutions. Due to lack of HIPAA compliant, we are not able to sell and go thru the internal security approvals for x.ai and x.gov.
about 2 months ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

Improve bsub rejection messages for troubleshooting

Improve the error messages returned from bsub failiure. For example, provide the rusage string and potentially specified what is wrong with rusage. Here is current failure message: Error in rusage section. Job not submitted.
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Planned for future release