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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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Data module: Grouping tables

I would like to have the ability to group tables importes into a new Data module. This would be equivalent to the yellow folders in FM.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More precise Accounting and SQLACTIVITY Reports with separate SYNC operation

Complex CICS/IMS transactions (involving multiple programs with an implicit Commit at the end) are incorrrectly presented on the Omegamon Accounting Report as well as on SQLActivity Report. By design the costs of the tough SYNC operation (two phas...
over 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Need a condition on grid of related objects, particularly Sibling objects

Today, you can add a Grid of objects with Child or Sibling relationships, however it shows all objects, which is very limiting. Adding a condition (filter rule) that can compare the sibling to the object would be very helpful. Similar filter funct...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW - Enhance Trusted Context

We use Trusted Context (TC) to allow connections into a database from IP's configured. However with the move to the cloud, it has become a challenge as the source IP's change dynamically with application restart. We need a TC mechanism to be able ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW: Db2 utility to back up and restore the permissions and ownership values of Db2 files/directories

Requesting Rproduct improvement for Db2 Linux, Unix and Windows. Problem description: This RFE solves a problem or deficiency within an IBM database product, Db2 Linux, Unix and Windows. The problem is that users (with authority) mistakenly change...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Informix mapped user authentication with Active Directory

Need a feature from Informix server so that Informix mapped users can also be authenticated by Active Directory. As of now, this feature is not there in Informix.
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Multifiltering for cell reference filters in PAfE

In a PAfE evaluation, we want to set a cell reference filter that filters multiple values from multiple cells. The solution would be a filter that filters a specific range and uses only one filter row. An example would be: (Filter!A5:A8), only one...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Be able to change label for Description and Name

It would be really useful to be able to change the label of object Name and Description. For example, our users would like the Description of Finding object to be labeled as "Finding Title".
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Deployment friendly implicit LOB naming

The Db2 feature to implicitly create LOB structures could be very helpfull for us. But we are facing a big problem with the implicitly created objects. Db2 for example names the auxiliary table with an random prefix (as well for LOB tablespace, au...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
11 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration