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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.

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Ability to delete / edit comments / Annotations in PASS

The ability to add comments / annotations to a Planning Analytics Cube cell is very useful. But sadly in PASS there is no ability to delete or edit these comments which limits how useful they are. Frustratingly both PAW and PAFE at least give user...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Data Stewards need the ability to import and attach comments to columns

Would like the ability to import and attach comments to columns, both from the database directly and from a spreadsheet with the table name, column name and comment. There is sometimes relevant info in the database comments and our testing has sho...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Future consideration

Allow comments for alternate hierarchies

When bringing in an alternate hierarchy to the view, I'm unable to enter any comments
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Openpages: Copy functionality for resources maintained in library.

In Openpages users have got an option to copy the answers from previous assessment. This works only if the questions and resource(process or resource) which are present in the assessments ( from where its being copied to the assessment its being c...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 2 Future consideration

Add description of views and columns of SYSCAT schema directly into SYSCAT

Good morning, may I ask You, if it is possible to add comments (SQL comand COMMENT ON ...) into SYSCAT schema views and their columns in future versions of Db2? I mean some extract of documentation ended by HTTP link to the appropriate web documen...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

allow "COMMENT ON" statement to add comments longer than 254-char to 2000

254-char long field too small to store comments attached to added objects (views, nicknames, columns, indices) when apps migrated from ORACLE to DB2
about 11 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Mandatory comments for soamcontrol

Request to make mandatory comments for suspend/kill/resume session and task, and disable app.
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.1 1 Future consideration

Notify stewards when someone comments

Current behaviour: you can comment on a data class within WKC but the steward of that class doesn't get notified (bell on main landing page). User would expect that a steward gets notified when they comment on one of their assets/artifacts. For ex...
over 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Generate alters for tables with Lobs without providing ddl of auxiliary table

This idea results from Case TS005582671. the problem there is, that admintool-compare cannot generate reasonable WSL for altering a table that contains a lob-column. Actually the create-auxiliary-table-statement must also be provided, so that the ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Multiuser Configuration for Db2 for i

If you have, or you plan to add, a datastore that is accessed by more than one user, you can enable automatic multiuser configuration when adding datastores, and you can prompt users to log comments when unlocking subscriptions when the source is ...
over 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration