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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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System Administrator option to prevent user login, disconnect existing users and display notification message.

When an administrator needs to perform some system maintenance operations we may need to keep users out of the system - but the system has to remain up. Eg. Large hierarchy change with data moves and security access changes. Or an upgrade where we...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Not under consideration

Enhance Page Browsing Function in Message List

In FTM MER, Message List, user has options to select the Next Page/Previous Page/First Page/ Last Page and browse the messages on that page. However, User is not having option to input the page number and browse the target page right away. It is v...
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Not under consideration

Data masking for ingested WDS documents

We have a client request to provide capability to mask sensitive data from ingested documents. This is to serve 2 purposes; i) general company wide data privacy requirements, ii) masking sensitive data from developers If a function was available...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

A tool to copy/synchronize database schemas between environments.

A tool to copy/synchronize database schemas between environments. Dbschema does not help if a test environment needs a schema refresh. A tool is needed to unload the schema and then apply the schema into another environment generating with not jus...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Removing defunct Delta Backup images after automatic database backup image removal

We have automated backup options enabled (num_db_backups and rec_his_retentn both set). Our backup schedule takes a full backup on Sunday and a Delta every other day of the week. When a full backup image qualifies for removal, with reference to th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

no "ok" button when changing properties on a report

There is no "ok" button after changing properties on a report. You aren't sure if the change was applied after it's made. The button existed in Cognos 10.2. Sometimes the change is applied and sometimes not. You have to go back and check.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bilingual filters works in Report but not working in Dashboard

When I create a bilingual Dashboard, the default language is English, the filters are in English. But If I change the language in “My Preference” to French, the filters are not selected (not switched to French).
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

DB2_BAR_STATS table view

Add a table view for the bar stats output
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH with PDQ should favour use of indices for sort when more than one column is specified

Currently (in my testing) any UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH statement with PDQ specifying more than one column will not use indices for sort and will instead scan the table, write to temporary files and sort. This is true even when all columns spe...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Sort data calculations should not be used to determine number of passes for UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH statements where an index is used, fix misleading explain output

UPDATE STATISTICS MEDIUM/HIGH can be used with an explain option. The explain file always shows a sort data calculation which then determines the number of table scans (passes) the database engine will undertake. These are calculated before any de...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration