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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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Need a utility to defragment large tables in a timely fashion when REORG is unable to reclaim space

Large, highly volatile, tables can become heavily fragmented when there is a significant amount of daily delete and insert activity. In some cases, the rows deleted don't leave enough empty space on a page for a REORG to clean up or reclaim that s...
9 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Future consideration

There is no method to quickly get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image

It is not possible to get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image without first restoring the image or by using 'db2ckbkp -l' but it is also too long as it has to read the entire backup image (this can be long if the image is stored on TSM /...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

The ability to apply the DB2 Connect Unlimited Licence directly on zOS

It would be useful for DB2 sysprogs to be able to apply the DB2 Connect Unlimited Licence to a database natively on zOS without the need to install the runtime client and run the db2connectactivate utility.
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

I want to execute an arbitrary process when the workbook is opened or closed in Workspace.

<AsIs> Currently, the only way to start a process is to click a button or execute it as a job. <ToBe> I want to be able to execute an arbitrary process when the Workbook is opened or closed in Workspace.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to capture metadata for relationships

Currently the platform does not allow for the capture of customer / use case specific data about relationships. For example when a Risk is associated to a control we would like to be able to store information on its % coverage etc. Its important t...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Dashboard data tray available in Read mode

The data tray is only available in Edit mode. Often users want to be able to see the numbers behind the visual. Currently the user either has to switch to edit mode.We dont want basic users seeing the complexity of dashboard authoring tools just t...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Allow Exclude criteria to be directly specified in ADB2GEN

We are driving automation by dynamically building a list of objects to 'GEN' the DDL for. However we also need to dynamically build a list of objects to exclude. Currently ADB2GEN only allows reference to a pre existing exclude which has to be cre...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Information security application that allows the obfuscation of sensitive information for other users

When importing and working with information about objects, processes, and clients, many of my OpenPages clients have suggested to me that there may be an improvement in terms of security, and that, as an auditable information management tool, it s...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Under review

Sorting Capability in Open Manta Designer

When users import an Entity from Manta Flow Viewer / Repository through Open Manta Designer (OMD), we have noticed that the Columns order as it is available in the Repository is being jumbled in OMD Left Pane of the Canvas. This is leading to a lo...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Search capability in Open Manta Designer

We have noticed that the users leveraging Open Manta Designer (OMD) are experiencing hard time in finding a Column_Name from an Entity with several attributes which is imported to Canvas. This is leading to a bad user experience when they intend t...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration