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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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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

DBSPACETEMP environment variable needs to accommodate multiple page sizes concurrently

When using DBSPACETEMP, the listing in onconfig is limited to one pagesize. The environment variable for DBSPACETEMP also allows for one page size. The engine needs to be able to pick the correct pagesize for temp space usage, and the current arch...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - Data Server UI Modification For Useability

In the Manage, Data Servers UI in Cognos 11, can I alter the config files and add a comment up top, right below "data servers"? If we're going to allow users to create data servers, I want to give them some guidance And/or: can I alter the config ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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

Common Pattern Nodes

Add the possibility to jump to common pattern nodes/node groups (e. g. "Please enter your customer number/adress/phone number") from anywhere in the dialog flow and dynamically jump back, based on where you came from. This could speed up dialog de...
almost 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Cognos Administration

Add the ability to customize(or at least expand) the fields viewed in Cognos Administration for Scheduled reports, Past Activities, Current Activities
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ADM tools - saving reports

We converted from CA tools to IBM tools, and one of the areas that is not up tp par is ability to save a report into a dataset. Example - I can produce a multi-page Drop-Impact report, but there is no command that allows me to save it into a datas...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Dashboard - Ability to Modify or Hide the Standard Templates

When you go to create a Dashboard you are presented with a blank template. It has no header/footer on it. As a government agency we need to have specific headers and footers for compliance reasons. You can use the Text Widget to create labels to a...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration