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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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Need a DataStage super operator role with export permission

We have a requirement due to SOX auditing rules that developers can have read-only access to the DataStage jobs in production. However, we would still like the developers to be able to export the jobs so they can be moved to the non-prod environme...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

Add ability to find map dependencies

Before deleting a map, we would like a way to find any other dependent maps. Virtual views that reference the map Web Services that reference the map Virtual tables pointing to other virtual tables on the same (or different) subsystems
almost 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Workspace doesn't show -0.

Currently when I set the format to "#,##0;-#,##0", it doesn't show -0 in the Cube view/Workspace even if I enter Negative number like -0.33. I would like it to show -0.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

persist width of Application name column under workload Health on dashboard

There are 30 characters of our application name. The width of applicaiton name under workload health on dashboard is not persist after navigate away and back.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 0 Planned for future release

Sorting and Hiding control of Alt Hierarchy roots in PAw

We have many Alt Hierarchies we have created (30+ for some dims) But no all users leverage or need everyone. Some are for TI system processes. We wish to be able to hide (by group security) the Alt Hierarchies that users do not need to see. Also...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Customizable 'Unable to Authenticate Page'

In Cognos configuration we've set the "Restrict access to members of the built-in namespace?" property to true. Now, for users that don't belong to a group or role they get this message "Unable to authenticate. The provided credentials are restric...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bulk Edit in a Datasheet View in UI

We need the ability for end-users to bulk edit records in the system in a datasheet view (where they can copy and paste data from Excel to OpenPages). This should be in the UI for end-users not a Fastmap template. This is different from Grid Vi...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Automatic Statistics table exclusion list

We have a 3 billion row table that we would like to remove from AUS selection and manually run statistics as it is failing due to exhausting the 48Gb of sort disk
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Real-time statistics with statistics profile can lead to deadlocks and lock timeouts

DB2 real-time statistics facility honors RUNSTATS options specified in the statistics profile, while performing synchronous statistics collection during statement compilation. If the statistics profile contains ALLOW READ ACCESS option, this can l...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Trigger an alert mechanism whenever a DML transaction is captured in between 2 DDL transactions on the same table

If we run a DDL-DML-DDL scenario and update the metadata of the table using dmreaddtable command and resume mirroring, the data is getting mapped incorrectly. This has been observed where the datatypes are similar and CDC starts capturing data wit...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration