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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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New Grid view field to update text fields (may be enabled in Nested View)

As a user I want an ability to update data directly within text fields in a grid view, similar to the functionality of Excel. This would eliminate the need to open individual records each time fields such as description or comments require modific...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

INPLACE REORG should always be interruptible

Under certain circumstances it is not possible to stop/pause or force an INPLACE REORG that waits for a lock (TS019866410). Because the INPLACE REORG does not respect lock timeouts, it hangs in "lock wait" until the lock holding session releases t...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Tools 0 Submitted

Format Manager - Copy/Paste Format from one cube view to another

We need the ability to create a 'standard' format in the 'format manager' for a cube view and apply it across pre-existing cube views. Manually updating pre-existing reports with the new capabilities provided in the format manager is extremely tim...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Authorization assignment to user-roles on PAW book tabs

In PAW there is a specific assignment of right for PAW books. For our use case it would be beneficial to also be able to assign tabs inside a book to different user roles thus showing and hiding tabs depending on the user rights. This would enable...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Suppress Static Subset Copy Message in Planning Analytics

Whenever Dynamic Subsets are used in SUBNM Formulas in Websheets in PAW books, a message pops up "Static Copy required". When using the SUBNM with a MDX Subset, the User drills up or down in the Hierarchy while selecting. When he selects any me...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

User can share customized dashboard panel with another user

We have users that want to create a dashboard panel which is more focused on their country: e.g. issues assigned to the 4 different managers across their country. This is not something we can make available for every user because of the specific a...
18 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

The default role of a new PAW user should be configurable

In PAW a new user is created automatically, when he logs in for the first time by approproate settings. In this case the new user is always defined as "Analyst" by default. I have a customer, who wants to have new users created as "Consumer". Up t...
18 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Ability for Reorg Reclaim Extents decrease page count from columnar tables

Currently the Page Count (value seen in column COL_OBJECT_L_PAGES from MON_GET_TABLE) is never reduced even after running Reorg Reclaim Extents.In a columnar table that suffers insert/update/delete we may get into a situation where Db2 will indica...
4 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 1 Under review

Please improve the quality of the grpahical output for Visual Explain.

Since Data Studio is now extinct the only way to generate a visual explain graphic is by using DB2 Admin Foundation or VS Code Developer Extension. Unfortunately, the quality of the graphical output for Visual Explain is like something from the 19...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Request block level Informix cluster replication

Using block level replication will avoid a lot of SQL apply processing issues. It will lead to significant performance gains by offloading replication workload. Since it is an identical copy of the primary database, it can even fix corrupt block b...
27 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Submitted