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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Optimize db2advis (recommend indexes) with machine learning (ML) models

Isn’t it possible to use the data model information from machine learning (ML) also for the db2advis (recommend indexes)? The idea is, that db2advis also can use the data model to get new recommended indexes.
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Under review

To notify user before timeout

Right now when timeout is happening, TM1Web would just become irresponsive, or a new action would then cause a timeout error, however, unlike other product or website, it prompts to user and ask if the user want to continue working or not.
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Print LOAD Report on separated DDNAME

During the execution of the LOAD utility, when a record is discarded, it appears first in the classification phase (limited to 2000 occurrences) and then in the load report (no limit). We want the report to be printed in a different DDNAME, differ...
11 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Under review

DSNTEP2/DSNTEP4 program parameter to specify the output record length without the need to recompile the program

we are in the process of migrating IBM tools and utilities from a third party vendor to IBM software and we need a program to run SQL select statements in batch with an output record length greater than 133 characters. In the IBM manual for sample...
9 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Setting the content defaults globally

In CA 11.2.1 you can set up content similar to Cognos Connection in 10.2 if you change to List View, row size "Compact" and sort by "Type". Unfortunately this has to be set for every browser for every client because this custom settings will be st...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Apply number format when editing a cell in PAW

We are using the german number format ("." as thousand separator and "," as decimal separator) in PAW. The format works fine for non-selected cells, but after a doubleklick into a cell the cell value is displayed with the default format (point as ...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

List of Necessary Improvements Post-Audit: Action Steps

Following an audit, the customer needs to correct the following non-compliant points (see attached document):- Rendered decoration images (page 7) - Identical or non-explicit button labels out of context (page 18) - Menus or modals not detected by...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

PA Cell Comment feature enhancement

Comment is a very useful feature for PA users, especially to maximize centralised interaction. This can be a powerful feature to differentiate with other analytics product offerings. However cell commenting feature is quite limited. As business pa...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Convert Db2 managed nonUTS workfile TSs for DGTT or SORT only without DROP/RECREATE by online REORG

Starting with function level 13508 we can use workfile separation for DGTTs and SORT. We want to prevent that we have to drop and recreate all the existing nonUTS segmented workfiles. Wouldn't it be possible to convert them by ALTER and online REO...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

ADK Command Output - to copy-and-paste object names and IDs more easily

When using the ADK, it would be useful if the command output - typically for list commands - could render the IDs and Names more effectively so they can be copied for subsequent pasting. At the moment it is impossible to do this so subsequent comm...
4 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 2 Needs more information