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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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Ability to disable Notifications for Bulk Update of Fields and Bulk Workflow Actions

When users use the Bulk Udate feature from a Grid view, or they complete Workflows in Bulk from a Grid view, the system shows them the result of the operation directly in the UI. At the same time an e-mail notification is triggered to the user. Th...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Improve Stored Procedures features

We are trying to increase the usage of SP in our system environment. Migrating business code from 4GL to the database.But this process becomes very painful for our developers since the support for SPL is limited. Mainly the inexistence of a native...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Write Failed Lock Escalation Attempts to Master

Currently, when Lock Escalation succeeds, a message is written to the Master Log with details. However, when a Lock Escalation attempt fails (due to a timeout or deadlock), nothing is written. This sort of timeout or deadlock can be difficult to d...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Include the subcode along with the Adabas Response Code

Please consider to include the subcode along with the Adabas Response Code in the error message. For example, the below error message displays only the Adabas Response Code 9 but does not display the subcode. As per Adabas Messages and Codes Manua...
3 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Save changes in JGATE without having to connect

In JGATE for DVM, if an advanced parm is modified, JGATE does not allow the change to be saved without a successful connection. In our environment, we do not have access to the passwords, as they are stored as encrypted passwords in the DVM Global...
3 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support for Platform Connections in Cognos Analytics on CP4D

Currently, as of 4.8.x, CP4D's version of Cognos Analytics does not support adding connections from Platform Connections. The customer requests support for Platform Connections in CA on CP4D. Additionally, Cognos Analytics should support both Pers...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Data set security to be inherited from data source security

When a data set is created (from a package), it should inherits the security of the data source on which the package is based. For example, a DataAccessRole with Read, Write, Execute, Traverse is defined as security on the data source. When crea...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow custom fonts to be added to Cognos 11 Dashboard

Customer would like to add Corporate Identity based fonts to Cognos Analytics 11 Dashboarding. Currently only the on-bord Fonts can be used to customize the look of Dashboards.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

DB2 Catalog and INDEX COMPRESSION statistics (PAGESAVE and BP_UNUSED)

If an index is compressed, it is documented in DB2 catalog table SYSIBM.SYSINDEXES column called ‘COMPRESS’ Tablespace compression is documented in SYSTABLESPACE and SYSTABLEPART. In both tables with column called ‘COMPRESS’ SYSTABLEPART also co...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Future consideration

Enhance search features on grid views

It is our understanding that in grid views (incl. filtered lists), only "name" and "description" fields can be searched on. We would like the ability to search on other fields displayed in the grid view.
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration