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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 to delete objects from an instance & application

Objects can be decommissioned when they become redundant, and so being able to delete indexes/tables/databases etc from instances and applications needs to be supported by DOE.
6 months ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Set Special Registers with profile tables for local applications

It would be nice to set the current explain mode (special register) with the help of profile tables (dsn_profile_table & dsn_profile_attributes) for local applications. In our case it's CICS. At the moment it's only possible for remote applica...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Provide Condition Capabilities to Latency KPIs

It would be beneficial if the latency KPIs had the same condition capabilities as the transaction message rate KPIs. This would allow us to separate different message types in the dashboard and keep track of the latency separately instead of in a ...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments 0 Future consideration

Use JPG pictures from database in Report Studio Reports

We have to print pictures in Report Studio Reports. The only data source for the Image Control in Report Studio is a URL SOURCE. We have many JPEG pictures stored in a database and want use these pictures in Report Studio reports. Please add to th...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Calendar Month added to filter Operations

​ In order to create a monthly overview as part of a filter condition, you currently have to use the "In the range" operation and enter a start and a end date. This period must be renewed regularly. In order to automate this process, it should be ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Provide a rich text object similar to Inline Guideance for displaying rich text in the standard format not highlighted in a blue box

It would be useful to have a text object that could be added to the view in a similar manner to the inline guidance object, but it displays the text in the standard way (black on grey background) so that you can add meaningful text to display to t...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Generate button For data time Fields

Required Generate button For data time Fields in all Message types,Example:for system Message xys.015 generate button for From Time(FrTm) Field.
about 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration

See characteristics of query engine

See via the interface the characteristics of the query engines: number of workers, cpu, ram...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.data 0 Future consideration

OPL port for z/OS

We are looking at CPLEX on zOS.Today, only compiling a C++ program can be used to drive CPLEX on the z platform. It would be much easier to be able to inject OPL directly in (concert, part of ) CPLEX for z/OS.
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Future consideration

Redirected Restore on STANDBY for STOGROUP expansion

Case number: TS008472518 Our database was 42TB and the file system were 45TB across 12 file systems. I wanted to expance the total storage to TB by adding 12 additional file systems. I took a backup and did a re-directed restore on standby with 24...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration