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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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byte and text partitioning

Ability to partition byte and text data stored in blobspace. Eg. create table table1 (,,, colx byte in (blobspc1, blobspc2) ) ... This allows the byte/text data to be partitioned across multiple blobspace so that the blobspace size will not be ske...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Automated dashboard upgrade in PAW

Due to Log4j we did an update to Planning Analytics Workspace 2.0.71. Afterwards we noticed the following message when opening an existing dashboard/book: Your Dashboard has been upgraded. Save now to maintain optimum performance. How can we autom...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Specify how many records to parse to determine storage type with an Excel file

Currently, Modeler reads the first 50 rows of an Excel file to determine storage. I have seen many customers wish that they could determine the amount of rows to read in - as sometimes they have missing values for the first 100 records, and the st...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0

Ability to collapse by default the "Show properties" option while creating a new report

We are upgrading our environments to Cognos version 11.1.7 and we would like to control the "Show properties" option while creating a new report. In our current Cognos version (11.0.13.1), the "Show properties" pane is collapsed by default, so use...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Backup Db2 to on premisses S3 API devices (ie. EMC ECS)

Backup Db2 databases to low cost object storage devices such as EMC ECS using the S3 API. The current implementation of the S3 interface only works for a small list of known S3-style endpoints. (ie....s3.amazonaws.com, softlayer.net). This would a...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Provide Filter Selection available in FLV within an Activity View listing

Ability to specify and apply a filter within an Activity View listing. Scrolling thru numerous objects in a list within Activity View is not user-friendly. A filtering capability such as exists today in the OP 7 product would be very useful.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

Admin: Allow to configure Lock/Unlock at Object/Profile level

The Lock/Unlock permission is at a application level. We would like to be able to selectively allow/block that capability by Object Type and/or Profile. There are numerous cases where there exists a need to have more granular control of this feature.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Admin: Allow ability to allow View-only of configuration settings vs. Edit for all

Today if you have access to a particular Administration function, you are able to edit that function. We would like to be able to have a setting that can limit edit capabilities, but allow View of these settings.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Admin: Ability to Deny Read on objects/entities

Users may have access to entities/objects at a higher level to allow reporting/analysis on an aggregated (rollup data) level. However, these same users may not be allowed to view the details associated with the same data/objects at the child entit...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Admin: Need to expand limit of 32k on Field Namespace

OpenPages currently limits the field namespace to 32k characters.This is a problem for those already defined objects that have over 200 fields and in trying to enhance the object, we run into the space limitation. Also , because we cannot Delete f...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration