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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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Alter table / table schema change timestamp in systables (or sysmaster)

systables shows the creation date of a table. It would be useful to DBA's if alter date/time were shown also. At times we want to know when a table was altered. I provided a PMR number above as one scenario where this information was needed but th...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Upload own Maps for PAw

Would like to be able to upload other Map types to match data to Map Visualization.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DB2 object lock - return code on the ESS Normal Call Exit interface

In the case where an object lock is not available for an External SubSystem ( ESS ) origin thread, DB2 should not return the 'temporary error" return code on the ESS Normal Call Exit interface.It would be acceptable to make this optional. Justific...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Encryption of the requests to the web server

Use some element of encryption or encoding in the backend responses so that sensitive data is not interpreted by an attacker/third party.
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Not under consideration

Do not Add the Planning Analytics COM Addin to MS Word

When we install Planning Analytics for Excel, 2 Excel Addin and 1 COM addin are added to Excel However the COM Addin "IBM Framework for Office" is also added to Word Users are facing various problems in Word because of this Addin. Performance issu...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Display document status for collection on Watson Discovery UI

Currently there is no way to track document progress for a collection on Watson Discovery UI. Sometimes documents are stuck for hours and there is no way to figure out what is happening in the background. I think there should be a very simple and ...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Future consideration

db2val should allow to receive credencial as parameters

The db2val command cannot check databases when using a external security plugin like Centrify. In this case, this command should allow to specify the user and password to connect to a database.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

V8.1 TFUI – After selecting ‘Continue and Close’ on workflow actions, display Home Page rather than last opened tab

When a user wants to complete a workflow action and close the form, they did not expect the screen to open up one of the previously open tabs. They would much prefer it to show the HomePage.
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

V8.1 TFUI – Ability to Clear All filters applied in grid views

Standard UI has ability to clear all filters with a single click. TFUI have to click each filter to remove them. Users would prefer a single click option.
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

V8.1 TFUI – Ability to save the new Business Entity filter in Grid Views

The new business entity filter is great but cannot be currently saved in the filter definition. Can you offer a way to save this?
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration