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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.

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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Data Modelling: Add ability to sort/re-arrange columns in tables alphabetically with a single click

This idea affects the web-based Data Modelling: When creating a data model you currently have no option to quickly re-arrange all columns of a table alphabetically. When dealing with large tables it is very cumbersome to arrange columns alphabetic...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support Differential Refresh on DB2 for i (iSeries/ IBMi)

Currently there is no support to perform differential refresh when source/target databases are DB2 for i (iSeries / IBM i) This requires target tables to be cleared to perform a refresh in case there were any issues in replication. We have product...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server .Net Provider Support For Informix Types DATETIME

Hi, we are in the process of moving from .Net Framework to .Net Core. Currently using the Net5.IBM.Data.Db2 driver connecting through the DRDA protocol.For DATETIME data types we are having trouble searching. A simple query is throwing the excepti...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 5 Future consideration

Personalize the layout of fields in columns within a form

Our system encompasses more than 60 input fields, with a mix of read-only and editable options, permitting the Watson user to input and submit data. Would it be practical to arrange these fields in a tailored table with three columns, or might the...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Future consideration

Visualization: Able to assign colors to Attibutes

Being that the new Dashboard in V11 is interactive. Clicking on a specific area of a visualization act as a filter to the other visualizations within the dashboard. And you color palettes are sorted by the metric value. So when you pick a value (a...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Catalogs should have an alternative screen for showing / presenting Data Assets in a hierarchical way

Client is requesting a more contextual way, so to speak, of showing the Data Assets in the catalogs. The way the Data Assets are presented nowadays is considered loose. They should belong to a certain context. At the very least, there should be a ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Rich Text Entry

OpenPages includes the option to configure Rich Text fields of various lengths, short (4K), medium (32K) and long (256K). Within the field, the user can format text which, for selected situations, enhances the content and readability of reports. T...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Hard Delete of Data from OpenPages

Currently any data that is deleted from OpenPages either via the UI or API is a "soft" delete, meaning the data is not deleted from the actual database tables. Furthermore it is not possible to delete data from old reporting periods. There should ...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Delivered

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE and db2look result in partition table column range definitions padding extra blank spaces when using config STRING_UNITS = CODEUNITS32

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE and db2look need to be updated to properly support STRING_UNITS = CODEUNITS32. When running ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE on a partitioned table with the 'MOVE' option, or when running db2look, in an environment with the db cfg setting for STR...
5 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 1 Is a defect

MON_GET_CONNECTION missing the application idle time

MON_GET_CONNECTION table function is documented to be the replacement of deprecated snapshot function SNAPAPPL, but it misses a key value, which is supplied by the old (deprecated) function. SNAPAPPL delivers the application idle time (APPL_IDLE_T...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 2 Delivered