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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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DB2: Enhancing DB2 decision making during starting up in DEFER ALL mode

We would like to enhance the DB2 product when starting a database with the "defer all" zparm parameter. It is unfortunate that there is a limit of 2500 in place, and it is also unfortunate that the trusted context is not automatically built, even ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Implicit Tablespaces for conversion of multi-table tablespaces to UTS PBG

When converting multi-table tablespaces to universal tablespaces with new command ALTER TABLESPACE MOVE TABLE you need to create a new tablespace for each table explicitely before you can use the command. It would be very nice if the ALTER TABLESP...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Status change or pending DDL when adding a KEY LABEL to an existing table

When an existing table is altered to add a KEY LABEL to enable encryption on the table, the encryption only takes effect post a Reorg (effectively post a redefinition of the underlying VSAM datasets). So the alter is effectively incomplete until s...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Export dataflows involving File System into Alation

Truist uses Informatica Power Center to process critical data elements(CDE) from different Applications relying on several technologies like Oracle, MSSQL, DB2 LUW, PWX,NRDB2,Salesforce, FileSystem,PWX Db2 ZOS, Netezza. Data Governance Stewards ar...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Track Deleted Items

Ability to track deleted items such as having a recycle bin.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Lock and Unlock element in PAW

We need functionality of locking and unlocking element in PAW, same like Architect. In Architect when we lock an element (by right click element > security > lock/unlock), it will not overwrite existing READ/WRITE access to groups. But when ...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Business rules on notifications

Need the capability to be able to apply business rules on notifications using different time zones, days of a week and dates. Examples - User action triggered notifications should be sent between Monday to Friday 9AM-5PM EST. User action triggered...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 5 Future consideration

OFFSET node and OLAP node

@OFFSET is useful to create feature variables such as - the ratio or difference between the data and the data before and after - ranking or CUMSUM But There are issues. - Not support SQL pushback - Difficult concept for grouping I request for two ...
about 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Custom Tooltips in Dashboards & Reports

Custom Tooltips is an extremely helpful thing for anyone Cognos users. Please add this feature in all possible scenarios mainly Dashboards and Reports.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 6 Not under consideration

Breakdown of Estimated performance gain percent value for each Recommended Indexes (Used in Plan = "Y") in WhatIf Analysis

As per attached screenshot, there are 4 recommended indexes together provide 42.62% of Estimated Performance again if they are created. Its not possible to pick any one or two indexes instead of all the four indexes. If 1 of the 4 recommended inde...
6 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted