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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Add description of views and columns of SYSCAT schema directly into SYSCAT

Good morning, may I ask You, if it is possible to add comments (SQL comand COMMENT ON ...) into SYSCAT schema views and their columns in future versions of Db2? I mean some extract of documentation ended by HTTP link to the appropriate web documen...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

when drop-create a unique index , start tablespace in RO to avoid duplicate keys

Sometimes our customers want to add an extra column/change order of colums in a unique index, which requires drop-create of index. To avoid duplicate keys, we often create a new unique index and then drop the old unique index - or drop-create ind...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Increased Character Count for Journal Text when doing Import of General Ledger Journal

Using Transfer>External Data>Import General Ledger Journals, there is a character limit of 255 on the journal text. This is very short for a journal text. Also to note, is much shorter than what is allowed if User were to manually create the...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Alignment format of Reports download from Controller

When downloading some standard reports (Eg. Company>Reports>Journals, Group>Reports>Journals, Maintain>Account Structure>Reports, etc.) in excel format from Controller, the alignment of the columns are incorrect. The headers shif...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

Allow Policy Author field to be multi-select

PCM module does not allow Policy Author field to be multi-select. If you change the display type of the field to multi-select, it will break the OOB Policy Unlock Helper, which is expecting the Author to be a single user when it determines if the ...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration

Make 'highlight same' always ON. Currently makes user select highlight buttons every time a task is opened.

In MDM Inspector when opening a task for resolution, we would like to be able to default the "hightlight same" button as always on.
over 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Display Dynamic Priority (for project group nodes)

Ability to display dynamic priority in License scheduler for project group nodes. Currently if priority is not set on a particular level there is no way to display the preemption order, which makes it difficult to explain the decision-making proce...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

Enable the OpenPages platform to have documents associated with GRC process stored in an external platform to avoid duplication and point file storage solutions

Core to this idea is that the workflow, business process and data capture is mastered in OpenPages, but the associated documentation is stored in an enterprise content management solution (example IBM's Enterprise Content Management). This could b...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

System Audit Log for Share Register & Invt Elim Entries

Entries input through function Data Entry - Shareholdings and Investments are not tracked in system audit log.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Single self-contained Windows DLL for .net5/6

With Oracle or Microsoft, we have the possibility to just reference one DLL to get full access to those RDBMS without driver installation. The latest Nuget packages are a nice addition, but publishing a project with VS releases the full clidriver ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration