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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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Association access control by security rule on the child object

Association access control by security rule on the child object, for now, in OpenPages, it only works with parent object, it would be nice that we can restrain association access on the child object as well.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Not under consideration

Add a parameter to disable "unpopulated cells" spreads

The spread types "Repeat leaves" and "Equal leaves" have very dangerous options to spread to all leaf cells instead of populated ones. In a large cube with many dimensions containing many elements, the number of empty cells to write on jumps very ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Display Report in the Business Analytics Dashboard tab. Share the same Report between Dashboards.

Display and share reports created using new report authoring environment in the Dashboards.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Smartcard certificate support for ibm_db (Python) client driver

Python is the most popular language in the area of data science and widely used in combination with Db2 - especially in environments with IAS accelerators. At the same time, many large and/or security-concious environments in general no longer acc...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

Would love to see a containerized version of the CDC Kafka agent made available

A container image of the CDC Kafka agent that I could deploy would be so handy.
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

View and subset counter

We would like to add the functionality to count how many times a view and a subset is used/opened. Users are creating a lot of different subsets and views and it can sometimes be difficult to navigate in the menus due to this. At the moment it's h...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Db2 zOS: Provide support for period-clause FOR PORTION OF BUSINESS_TIME for update operation within MERGE statement

Idea is to extend functionality of MERGE statement in Db2 z/OS by providing support for the period clause FOR PORTION OF BUSINESS_TIME for an update operation (and delete operation) within the MERGE statement. The statement would look like this: ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Delay the insert into PLAN_TABLE, if EXPLAIN MODE is YES

We want to use SET CURRENT EXPLAIN MODE = YES in long running jobs like DSNTIAUL or DSNTEP2 to get more information, what was going on. If these jobs only ran select-statements a long running UOR is generated, because the insert of the access path...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Report Output Option

In Cognos 10.2.2 it was possible to select the option "Keep this version">"E-mail Report" in the report output.There isn't this option in CA11.Doing subscriptions is not the same thing.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve blackout window scheduling

Improve blackout window scheduling to allow select day/week of the month. In example my need is to set a blackout window for a set of databases on the 3rd Saturday of each Month @ 4 AM.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Functionality already exists