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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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Dimension Editor

Ability to to do a "save as" with an existing dimension as well as set the order the elements.
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Define a mode more flexible for DEV or TEST environment

Possibility given in a development environment / phase to: - delete a field - rename a field - change its basic data type
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

zSort information in Utilities History

When running some utilities Db2 can choose to use zSort. In Utilities History (SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES). there is a column SORTNAME where you can see if DSSORT or DB2SORT has been used. The information if zSort has been used or not is vital as it can ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

PA: Usage metrics of PAX & PAW by users or workbooks

PAX & PAW is a going to the primary interface promoted by IBM, but there is no tracking available in identify whether a user is using PAX or PAW. There are few stats cubes available to capture metrics, but there is nothing available for these ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

ITC tables for pureScale

ITC are very useful to have table that have large batch deletes on it. Then space reclaim is a quite easy and fast task using REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS ONLY.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Enable developers to manage SAP Connections in DataStage Administrator for SAP and DataStage Administrator for SAP BW clients

Request to make users with Developer role possible to manage (add/modify/remove) SAP Connections in DataStage Administrator for SAP and DataStage Administrator for SAP BW client.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN for BLU tables

ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN is not yet supported on BLU tables.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Planned for future release

StartupChores in V12

StartupChores is not accessible in V12. Update the instance configuration interface to allow the setup of StartupChores parameter in V12. As of 20/05/2024 the documentation mentions this parameter is not part of the deprecated functions but unfort...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1

Allow relative path for dashboard images

Adding an image to a dashboard, the URL property does not allow relative path which makes deploying to different environments challenging.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Pafe should always display what is in the cube when doing a retrieve.

If a cube cell evalutes to #N/A due to a divide by zero error or circular reference then the following behaviour is observed. In an exploration view in PAW the cell value is #N/A, correct! In quick and exploration reports then cell displays as emp...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration