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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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Obtain the query plan of a running query

Many times a DBA is called to check upon a slow process. Most of the times those processes are running a slow query.Sometimes it's hard to know if the query is using the best query plan or not. A DBA can reproduce the query, but it it was prepared...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0

Informix Developer Edition MAC OS port for Apple Chipset M1/2

The current and future Informix Development Edition and the Advanced Development Edition should be available under Mac OS apple cpu. The MacBook's are very popular among pupils, students, and IT consultants. Run Informix Server at actual MacBook's...
10 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Waterfall charts in PAW based on Element Weight

The recently added waterfall chart is a great addition to PAW. However, the values (increase/decrease) are based on the values associated with an element, rather than the element weight. We often store both revenue and expenses in TM1 as positive ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Maker-Checker Capabilities on User Management

Safer Payments is being used by banks where there are extensive auditing and internal controls on what user profiles are being created and how are they being used. The absence of any authorization capabilities in Safer Payments while creating user...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to set retention rules on datasets

Use case: A customer requests to be forgotten. Requests that he/she wants to be removed from data sources where possible. From a GDPR perspective we need to be able to manage datasets containing data. e.g. data source has been updated (user inform...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Allow EBCDIC collation for column organize tables

Db2 does not support anh collation other than IDENTITY or IDENTITY_16BIT per this link - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=to-restrictions-limitations-unsupported-database-configurations-column-organized-tables. Customers who are wanting ...
10 months ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

Db2 partitioned table, set range of partitions to read only or read write mode

Table data is partitioned as specified in the PARTITION BY clause of the CREATE TABLE statement.At this moment if we create partitioned table, we can only set whole table to read only access using SET INTEGRITY FOR table OFF READ ACCESSor let it b...
10 months ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Impersonation should support admin accounts

Planning Alanytics Rest API supports impersonation of non-admin accounts only. Impersonation should also work for admin accounts.
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Introduce Data Connection Permission

We would like to request creating an additional permission that would allow an individual to create a data connection at the project level. Right now, if a user has access to a data asset outside of a project, they can connect to the data from wit...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

User list management

Hi Team, Would like to get the latest users being added to the system. We see that currently we are unable to get the users based on account creation date and hence fail to get the details of users who were recently added .If the feature can be im...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted