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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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Lock access plan for a query. Prevent the optimizer from changing a plan, once a "good" plan has been determined.

We see cases where a large query runs fine, and something changes the stats, which causes the optimizer to choose a really bad plan. We would like to be able to lock an individual query, and tell the optimizer: "Just use this plan".
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Cp4data SaaS for everyone

This idea is useful to make cp4data saas compliant to customer WCAG requirements, we have to work on accessibility criteria. Doing this we will expand cloud pak for data to the entire ENEL population that now cannot access to the content due to th...
10 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 2 Under review

To add partitions contingent on the row count of a table\view.

We need other enhancements to add partitions contingent on the row count of a table\view. When exceedingly large (i.e. millions and billions of rows), we need to look for primary and secondary keys, especially related to dates to add where conditi...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Expose API for managing enum values programatically

Currently, Tech team manages the Reference Data defined as Enum values. We would like to eliminate this IT dependency and would like to empower the business stake holders to be able to maintain the enum list. We also have downstream systems wantin...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Not under consideration

"Unpublishing" assets from catalog

Drop/Deleted tables are not updated (Not Marked as deleted) in the catalog after publishing it. Below requirement needs to be enhanced Propose: 1If we are publishing removed (status = removed from source) asset from project to catalog, it should d...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

"Unpublishing" assets from catalog

Drop/Deleted tables are not updated (Not Marked as deleted) in the catalog after publishing it. Below requirement needs to be enhanced Propose: 1If we are publishing removed (status = removed from source) asset from project to catalog, it should d...
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

PAW - wide of dimension column

Dear Mr./Mrs. We propose to enable expand dimension column so that than whole name of element is visible. Currently, the max column size is set and elements with longer name are not displayed completely. Please, see the picture Thank you Best rega...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Ability for admin to delete fields from the UI

Fields are often created in error or are no longer in use but they can never be deleted from OpenPages. This causes a lot of confusion in the administation screens. Admins should be able to at least hide these fields from their views
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Return SQL error when DBA attempts ALTER DDL with both pending and immediate changes, instead of returning "0" and "losing" a change.

We recently opened an SR TS005591497 with support when we found that an ALTER to a LOB tablespace specifying both PRIQTY and COMPRESS returned SQLCODE 0, but the PRIQTY was "lost". IBM support pointed out the following: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Is a defect

Provide a Security Apex / Consumer Root for Cognos Analytics

With IBM Cognos 10.x administrators had the option to set a a consumer root / security apex for their users. This allowed administrators to have an area in which the could stage releases while users only saw an specific area of the environment. Co...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration