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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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Multi select drop down filter like MS Excel

Currently when user looks for multi select prompts, we have only check box and List drop down available. It would be good to have option to have drop down Multi select feature similar to MS Excel to select multiple values.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Drop Nested SQL Native Procedure or Function without having to drop dependent objects

Would like to be able to drop a native stored procedure or function that has dependent objects without having to also drop the dependent objects (usually another native store procedure).
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to replace a user with another user in all objects

When someone changes roles or leaves the company, you need to update all objects they own (issues, action items, risk assessments, etc.) with a new owner. Today, this is not simple as you have to search for each possible object type. There should ...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Not under consideration

Add Business Process Visualizations feature to TFUI

Business Process Visualizations feature where users can create process diagrams in OP (using ProcessDiagram, DataInput, DataOutput object types) was only available in the Standard UI and retired in 8.3. Many clients use an external tool to create ...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

JSON Indexing on non-inline LOBs

Currently IBM allows the creation of indexes for JSON docs stored in an inline LOB but not a non-inline LOB. We want to make full use of JSON docs in DB2 for zOS. We wanted to avoid having to move more apps to MongoDB.
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Pacemaker upgrade break cluster when Red Hat Satellite is not accessible

Hello, My idea is to add some check if Red Hat satellite is visible into db2installPCMK because if it's not, update will break cluster and DB2 will be unusable until visibility is fixed and db2installPCMK is executed again. As workaround you shoul...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

ZSAV extension support for Data Files

In SPSS Modeler included in Cloud Pak for Data, as supported Data File extension, there are plenty types, but the zsav format (the one used most often by the customer) which does not appear to be present in the list. It would be a good idea to inc...
about 1 year ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Enhance TRANSLATE working on character basis

The current TRANSLATE function is working on Byte Basis which is OK for EBCDIC but not for Unicode Data. Please provide a similar function as SUBSTRING which is working on character basis regardless of Underlying codepage! PMR23932,060,618
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Additional Audit info needed

My business users would like to see how users are exporting the reports. Are they using excel pdf, csv. How often this is occurring.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DISPLAY UTILITY Enhancement

Add more granularity to the DISPLAY UTILITY command by added a STATUS filter. We may have a hundred utilities running at once, I would like to be able to pull up just the STOPPED ones.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration