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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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


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Improved field calculation engine that calculates and stores values prior to List view.

Require improved Computed Fields calculation engine that carries out field calculation and stores in order for already stored values to be read and displayed in a list view (so they can be sorted by) rather than sorting on the fly. Currently: 1....
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Event Studio: Ability to add Generate Trigger action

Add new action of trigger, to Event Studio
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add attribute "example" for terms

While I'm working to migrate the bussiness metadata from legacy IBM IGC to WKC, we realized that attribute "example" is no longer supported in WKC (PMR TS009686972) It will be really helpfull to have this attribute from now on instead of concatena...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Alter of Table with Clone without outage (DROP/RECREATE) not allowed in Admin Tool

We have a Table with a clone table defined and want to change the base table! Scenario: Dropping columns A and B, dropping unique index on column A and define unique Index on Column C. This scenario is not possible with Admin Tool without an outag...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

introduce a parameter, which would control what message(s) / links are shown on (or hidden from) the output console

Default Import Job results returns page error lines/error links url though it should be configurable to redirect to the customized error reports generated in the document store for the implementation.
about 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

IWA: Need support for SQL function INSTR(), i.e., in-string

Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) does not support the SQL function INSTR(), which allows us to search a substring within a string, and gets the location or character position of that substring inside the string. Informix does support substring...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Slow database activate

DB activation is too slow because of lots of tablespace containers. My customer think so much time is spent to check or open all tablespace containers. Please consider design change for faster activation.
about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add a monitoring table function to return transaction ids along with their commit times.

Goldman Sachs needs to know all the insert/update/delete operations against all tables updated by 1000s of applications along with their commit times. They dont want to use a replication. They want to use triggers that will be triggered on I/U/D o...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard panels that are defined by profile in the Standard UI should translate over to the TFUI/Dashboard .

Because of this limitation, an Admin cannot create dashboards for profiles. When an organization has many users and wants consistency with some of the dashboards there is no bulk solution. End users must create their own dashboards in the TFUI or...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Functionality already exists

Database level optimization guideline

Currently when there is a problem with the access plan of the query, we generally ask customer to use guideline. Sometimes they cannot use guideline and we ask then to use optimization profile. Optimization profile works fine but there is a very...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration