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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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Increase Simple String text fields max character limit beyond 4000

Currently, text area fields have a character limit of only 4,000 which is insufficient for many use cases. Users are restricted to only have 4000 characters and have raise their concerns that this is not enough. We need an ability to allow adminis...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration

Add Workflow Assignees by Roles and/or Groups

When create/update Governance workflows, add Assignees by Roles and/or Groups instead of user by user. It would reduce effort when assign large amount of assignees. It also makes it more manageable when changing and removing users from assignee li...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0

Can we get timestamp, DBNAME from archive log

Usually our Db2 backs up to storage server or natively. Occasionally we restore a Db2 system in another operating center from where we have to access to the storage server for Restore/rollforward. In the target environment the Db2 archive logs are...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Functionality already exists

Conditional Palette issues in Charts using conditional formatting

Unable to make positive and negative values as different colors using Conditional Palette in charts. I have tried many different things to try and get this to work with my report and have not been able to succeed. I have several different measures...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

onunload & BTS and other blades

onunload/onload are valuable tools for migrating databases between instances. These utilities have not been updated to accommodate the new technologies built into Informix, especially Blades and BTS.
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

QUERY_ACCEL_OPTIONS (option 11), add V5 ONLY option

As documented below, QUERY_ACCEL_OPTIONS (option 11) provides two options only. Simply (for all accelerators) or (V7 only). Especially, for migrations projects from V5 to V7, if we had third option such as (V5 Only), this would secure the workload...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Global Setting for Default Saved Outputs

The current default setting for saved outputs on each report is 1. We would like to change that globally to a higher number, 5.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Better problem determination when error message is returned to the job submitter

When running a loader job that fails on authorization the submitter of the job does not get a proper message. The message emitted by the IDAA Loader is "HLOU5715E Unknown error during IDAA validation". This is in par with the famous Microsoft Wind...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

GEN function with Db2 table as input

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over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

One to many compare

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over 3 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration