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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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Allow administrators to set the default Homepage tab per Profile

We are using v7.2.0.4 and currently there is no way to set which Homepage tab is the default landing page when users log in. The system always defaults to the Classic Homepage. I can configure the order of the tabs but, regardless of the order, th...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Allow number fields to be added to header

Allow number fields to be added to header.Critical information such as the Potential Loss amount should be displayed on the Header.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

ENH: Add support for visual totals to Dynamic Cubes

In a hierarchy with multiple levels (say Region and Country for example) if a user only has security granted for certain countries when Region is pulled into the report there are a couple ways the aggregates could be shown. Dynamic Cubes by design...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lock escalation on HISTORY STATISTICS catalog tables for DROP statement

add the ability for lock escalation on the catalog tables which contains the HISTORICAL STATISTISCs data (SYSIBM.SYS...HIST)
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Identify/log slow queries on a busy system

SQLTrace offers the DBA the tooling required to monitor a user session. However its difficult to monitor heavily used systems. For example one needs to have a buffer large enough to store 90 seconds of SQL queries (small lookup SQL's consume the b...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

ENDUR command for all the subscriptions

Recently, we have been troubled with long running URs. Because of this, all of our subscriptions failed with staging space memory errors. In this case we needed to modify the cdc agent with ENDUR command. However, this command can be entered for a...
about 4 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Global parameters with group permission

In Cognos Analytics the concept of global parameters was introduced. in the Administration section you can set permissions on paramters based on user roles. If a user has more roles you need to set the priority. It would be helpful if the permissi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance ALTER STOGROUP DROP ‚storage-path’ with optional specification of the Path_ID

As you may ADD the same path multiple times to a storage group (in order to have multiple containers of a single tablespace within that path), it should be possible to even DROP a single reference to that path from the storage group as well! But s...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Consumers being required to have read access for interactive reports has broken our security model

We allow business area authors to develop reports in the production environment. Business area consumers only run reportsBusiness area authors have Report Studio capability, Read, Execute, Traverse to the business area reporting package, and at le...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Changing partitioning key columns

Most of our tables that are created before DB2 V8 (and even some created later than that) uses the primary key as the partitioning key. The resulting partitioning key therefore consists of many columns, but the significant columns for partitioning...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration