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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Lock data partition

Currently it is merely possible to lock a complete table by means of the "lock table" statement. However, for range partitioned tables, it would be beneficial to be able to lock a specific data partition. That is, a statement like: “lock data pa...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Secure Gateway Special Character

Support ticket: TS000934521 The Secure Gateway Portal built into PAA does not support special characters ("\" or ",") when specifying server name. Can this be updated to accept the characters?
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

For DB2 Force, allow for execution of SQLs prior to the SELECT

There are many times when we need to execute some SQLs prior to the actual SELECT that will unload the data. This could be as simple as SET CURRENT SCHEMA TO XXXX; (if we are using secondary auth id, the default schema of the tables can not be spe...
about 2 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Easy way to search through grouping type attributes

Currently we have grouping type attribute, that can go up to 40 occurences which makes it harder for users to search specific value when ehy have mulitple pages for this attribute. We need an easier way to search for specific occurrence when havin...
about 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Add a Preview screen for a document in the Policy View Helper screen

In the Policy Management module, for the Policy View Helper, the UPS Capital business would like to know if they can have a Preview screen for a document as well as being able to download the document. They feel it would be efficient for them beca...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Add a time function within Cognos Analytics that always returns Cognos system time

Currently, the following functions return date/time based on whether the database provides support. current_date returns cognos system date if not within a query, but when used within a query, it returns the database server date. The same happens ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data is retained when switching to a different PowerPlay package Using PAX

The requirement is such that, when a user switches from one package to another and the package comprises of the same physical PowerCube, the connection is made to the new package. Currently, the behaviour is that switching to a different pa...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Consistent Spreading behavior among different Viewers and Client

IBM Planning Analytics For Excel Users are not able to input value in rule-driven consolidated cell in Exploration. However it works from Viewer. Rules defined: [revenue]=N:[volume]*[price]; [price]=C:[revenue]\[volume]; This behavior creates conf...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Refresh view for Subscription

Add a "Refresh View" button to the GUI also for Subscriptions as it exists for Table Mapping View.
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Holds for Spreading in PAx Dynamic Reports

The Hold function does work in PAx for Quick views and Exploration views. For Dynamic views there is: 1. No ability to set Holds in PAx Dynamic Report (right click a cell > IBM Planning Analytics > no Hold function available) 2. Holds are no...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration