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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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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

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

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

Ability to include an image in the screen tip option

t would be a good idea to store this image somewhere in the webcontent folder in Cognos installation.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

two-factor authentication

remove the two-factor authentication from this site.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

"Create and run diagnostics" jobs action should available under "View platform health" permission

Related Epic CPDIDEAS-I-795 We have certain group of restricted users, who need to have permission for collect diagnostics data in case of any problem encounter with CPD and open support ticket with IBM. But these group of restricted users shouldn...
over 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Planned for future release

Builtin function to convert unix timstamps

A lot of applications using unix timestamps (number of seconds since 1970-01-01). For example DMC (Data Management Console) is using this. For DBAs and application developer it would be much easier to have a builtin function to convert this unix t...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Future consideration

Test Shell Button for access by shell

In the Connection Profiles you have to add username and password for accessing Db2. As well there's a button 'Test connection' to test the connection. When you define user defined alerts in your monitoring profile you're able to define sql and she...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration