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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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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.

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Snap to grid and the ability to size objects in the layout via drag actions

It would assist with a wyswyg style UI if additional design capabilities were available in report studio. One main improvement would be the ability to resize and move objects on the page layout without having to access the object properties and ch...
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Logical Backup

Create “loadable” files foe objects rather than table space dumps. Only base table contents, no indexes
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

RP Tables syntax

If the “INDEX IN” option is left off the index goes in the default TSP. There is no way to change this later
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Runstats report only

Add the option report to the runstats utility to display the up to date statistics without updating the catalog tables
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

New privilege for IMPORT into a restrictive database

Granting DATAACCESS authority works but is not a desirable option as the user would get access to all tables. Granting CONTROL or INSERT/SELECT, without DATAACCESS, returns SQL0551N. As a result customers are left on their own to pursue and figure...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

RTM: license server name truncated

A license server name longer 45 char which is truncated when I save it in the lic add form. It seems this is due to the server_name filed of the lic_services table limited to 45 char when name field in many others table (like lic_servers) are limi...
about 11 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Delivered

Search for a row using a RID in the table panel

The select prototype for tables should include the option for selecting a row using a RID. We would use this e.g. when we encounter errors rebuilding unique indexes, running check data or loading data.
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Virtual Tables in Information Analyzer

Needs to have a possibility: to populate virtual tables metadata into Metadata repository to publish virtual tables column analysis results to IGC (and all other analysis) visualize logic for virtual table creation in IGC for any business users ex...
over 5 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 0 Not under consideration

Deployment Of Native SQL Stored Procedures With Validate(Bind) Is Call Order Dependent

For DB2 V10 and V11. When NSPs are created with Validate(Bind), they have to be deployed in reverse call order or the the bind deploys will fail with a procedure not found error. If NSPs are created with Vaildate(Run) to get around this limitation...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Reorg: Improve Lock Contention

Enhance Reorg:--> Reorg ... allow read access with range partitioned tables--> Options to avoid lock timeouts ---> specify max time for swap phase, restart delay for non-succeeding swap phase, deadline for reorg completion ---> allow i...
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration