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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Expanding limit of Maximum number of columns in a table - Db2

Hi, In Db2, currently we have the limit of 1012 as maximum number of columns in a table, We would request you to exapand this limit. thank you! Regards, Sankar
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

Monthly subscription

CA11 introduced 'subscriptions' which currently only allows selection on day (monday -> sunday) and time. It would be useful to also have monthly/quaterly... options, same as what is available in scheduling. All the more as they appear as regul...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide more granular database-level privileges than just CONNECT, RESOURCE and DBA

We have a requirement to support a code deployment role where a user, whose job role is not a DBA, can release code into a given database. The type of things they would be doing is:* Creating and dropping procedures, synonyms, triggers, indices an...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Reset prompts and run option should clear the prior selected prompts or do not use the word 'Reset'.

Currently, the 'Reset prompts and run' option only takes you back to the prompt page. It does not clear the prior selected prompt choices. The word 'Reset' is misleading. User believe it should clear the prior selected prompts. Make this option cl...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Supporting Oracle 19 release and Oracle Multitenant architecture by SPSS Modeler and SPSS C&DS

In our company is planed migrate the Oracle databases the Oracle 19 release and Oracle Multitenant architecture - CDB Container DB architecture. We have the installation of CADS 8.0 and Modeler 18.0.0.1 on our systems. I have learned via a ticket ...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler Server 2 Functionality already exists

Auto-size INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL system parameter and auto-populate SYSIBM.SYSINDEXCONTROL

To avoid manual analysis and reap the benefits of in-memory index structure / FTB. To automatically allocate more than 20MB (when appropriate) for INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL zparm. To identify list of indexes that would benefit from FTB based on actual ...
12 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Automate Housekeeping for \temp and \data

Currently it is awkward to clean up \temp and \data. Only the product knows which files are in actual use.If you had process crashes during report executions and or of the product itself temporary files might not be properly removed during a resta...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Get value of a System Workflow Field via REST APIs

OP's REST API currently provides for an ability to fetch an object (ID, name, location, associations, fields) via GET requests to the /contents/{id}, but is limited to object fields only. The API does not cover system workflow fields such as A...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Not under consideration

Samples installer containing all Cognos samples

Currently there are a few sources for cognos samples. We would like to have one single installer for all cognos samples. From the installer it should be possible to select the required samples like Transformer Cubes, Dynamic Cubes, new CA samples ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improved Explorer view formatting options including visually grouping of rows

There is a requirement for a greater number of options to format the Exploration view over and above the simply “Conditional Formatting” function, which can be used to achieve colour differentiation. Including the ability to control:1. the def...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration