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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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Onconfig parameter to disable automatic registration of datablades.

In high volume environments automatic registration of datablades can cause too much contention and impact processing.We would like a new onconfig parameter to disable the automatic registration of datablades.
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Data Stewards need the ability to import and attach comments to columns

Would like the ability to import and attach comments to columns, both from the database directly and from a spreadsheet with the table name, column name and comment. There is sometimes relevant info in the database comments and our testing has sho...
almost 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Improve Cognos Analytics integration with Salesforce

Current state IBM Cognos Analytics ability to integrate with / pull metadata from Salesforce is extremely limited. Unable to select tables/schemas using new "Manage" administration functionality or create data modules using Salesforce data. Legacy...
almost 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

Include notifications for recent changes (API Connect v10)

This is for API-Connect v10 (OVA install). In v5, there was a feature where one could view a notification bell in the top right corner when logging into the cloud manager or api manager that would show recent changes (Ex: xyz api was published, et...
about 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 1 Future consideration

All CM Batch to process DDL-DDL comparison

Allow CM Batch to process DDL-DDL comparison
about 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Modify the message when Load utility encounter table not found.

Sometimes we unload many tables from source DB2 to another one. If some tables do not exist in the target DB2, the load utility will fail with RC=8. this error message is mixed with ordinary information and ends with "I" in a big jobout file. For ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Release the restriction of restoring and rollforward through a topology change in pureScale

After a change in topology that involves adding or dropping a member, you cannot perform rollforward recovery operations through the point where the topology change occurred;
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover / pureScale 0 Future consideration

On Grid View Search with multiple object names

Users would like to have the capability to search on multiple object names at once in Grid View. For example to enter 3 Loss Event Names (e.g. space-separated) and get those 3 Loss Events as a result in Grid View.
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

More user-friendly trial balance with drilldown report when you have a comprehensive dimension structure

See attached document. Our users are impacted every month.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Support for "every" in the "alter table add partition" to add multiple partitions

The "create table" statement supports this syntax to create a table with multiple partitions: CREATE TABLE DOCUMENTS ( ID INTEGER, CONTENTS VARCHAR(10)) PARTITION BY RANGE (ID)(STARTING 1 ENDING 1000 EVERY 100) This will create a table with 10 par...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration