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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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Improve XML length/sizes determination

One of the frequent questions I receive from application teams, when dealing with XML data is : What is the max size of my xml documents in database ? What is the average size of them ? Today, Db2 has no easy answer for that.. the LENGTH() functio...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Types 0 Future consideration

Bulk download attachments/files

Ability to download multiple files (SOXDocument) at once.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Not under consideration

Control over grid view column widths

We're finding grid views / embedded grid views have disproportionate column widths (in terms of reader usability/readability). This often impacts us on fields such as Name and Description. If we had the ability to define the column widths ourselve...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Not under consideration

Request to add a feature for storing trusted credentials in Cognos Analytics without password grant configuration in a configured OIDC namespace

Currently, Cognos Analytics 11.x requires password grant configured on the IdP in order to store trusted credentials for an OIDC namespace. However, password grant is not the most secure grant type to work with, and as such, I would like to reques...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Future consideration

Show "My parameter" Icon in Dashboard

We would like to use a global parameter in a Framework package and use this package in a Dashboard as source. But, when we run a Dashboard, the icon "My Parameters" is hidden. Actually, the users have to go to the home page to change parameter val...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Grid View in Task Focused UI should have same display functionality as in Standard UI

The Standard UI offers the ability to display up to 3 levels of object instances in Filtered List Views or Grid Views. The Grid Views in the new UI so far are missing this ability. It further would be beneficial, if more than 3 levels could be dis...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 6 Not under consideration

Add support for Alma Linux

Our ask is for IBM support for Alma Linux as the underlying OS for CDC replication.
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Please log the number of bwaits processed per minute in "badmin perfmon view" and the current number of bwait's queued in "badmin show status"

Currently, we can see the number of total bwaits that have gone into the system since we have command debug logging enabled, but we have no easy way to know how many wait's are queued up or what the throughput of bwait commands are. We would use t...
4 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Save off openshift logs when a POD is recycled or crashes.

When an OPENSHIFT POD is either recycled or if a POD crashes the log conatined within the POD is lost. Even though there are 3rd party options to save the log(s) we believe IBM should make it part of their deployment to have the logs saved off. Th...
4 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Submitted

In SQL replication, do not re-execute signals that have already been executed.

In SQL replication, as in Q Capture, add a reprocess_signals to the parameters of the capture and set the default to N. Do not re-execute a signal that has already been executed if the minimum LSN is less than the last signal LSN at the start of t...