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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Ability to re-create views and procedures without dependent objects being dropped

Some objects in a database often depend on other. As an example, if there is a view, another view can be built upon it.Private and public synonyms can be created for those views, and permissions given to various users on those views.If the first v...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Move Tabs in the TFUI

It would be useful if users could re-order tabs in the Task Focused UI. This would help with users organising data and makes the application more intuitive by including functionality similar to most browsers
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Configure a user-defined value for disabling all IFI request and MONITOR trace processing after a number of abends

When a certain number of abends occurs, while processing IFI requests, processing of all IFI request and MONITOR trace is disabled, requiring an action from Db2 operator/system administrator to be resumed. Today this number of abends, that disable...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Not under consideration

Implement failover in Cognos Analytics

Implement failover in Cognos Analytics
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add radial and lasso map selection controls to map visualization in Cognos Analytics dashboards.

We have a business requirement for selecting radial and custom geographic areas to quickly identify clients at risk during extreme weather events, disease outbreak, flooding, fires, or other localized emergency.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add Python 3.12 and 3.13 binary wheel distributions for CPLEX

The Python Package Index only contains distributions of CPLEX for 3.11 (see https://pypi.org/project/cplex/#files). Please upload wheels for Python 3.12 and 3.13.

Add Apple Silicon builds of Python binary wheels for CPLEX

The Python package for cplex on the Python Package Index (https://pypi.org/project/cplex/#files) only provides macOS binaries for x86_64, not for Apple Silicon. Please upload binary wheels for Apple Silicon. In my industry (astronomy, astrophysics...

Global Search parameters in TFUI

Thank you for bringing back global search into the TFUI. Can you please also bring back option to include the parameters of the search. Right now it is only a search box that doesn't allow you to refine the criteria any further.
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Not under consideration

Command to display the DB2 early code

Customer wants to apply new early code with REFRESH DB2, EARLY by automation software. To be sure that they apply new code, they want to display the early code before the REFRESH DB2 command. Unfortunately this command is not yet implemented, and ...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support more granular system parameter settings

Support the ability to set system parameters at the application level.For example, allow parameters to be specified based on specific:- plan- package (specify collection, package)- authid or role- client info properties DB2 should have the ability...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration