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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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A new version of InfoSphere Streams compatible with OS Linux RedHat 7.8

The 4.3.0.0 version of InfoSphere Streams is not compatible with OS Linux RedHat 8 but the end of maintenance of the OS Linux RedHAT 7.8 is december 2023. So we need a compatible version of Streams
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

STREAMS for RedHat 7.8

We would like a new version of STREAMS compatible with RedHat 7.8 for real time analysis
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration

Cognos for Office Add In - RefreshAllData via VBA

With RefreshAllDataAndFormat and RefreshAllData you cann refresh data in an Excel Spreadsheet via VBA. Both applie to the entire Spreadsheet. I use some Spreadsheet in which two or more reports are embedded. It would be good if you can update the ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Request twice daily backup for Planning Analytics Data

IBM is backing up the data tier on Planning Analytics once a day. We would suggest this be increased to twice a day.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Limit dimensionality of annotation cube to only relevant dimensions

Exactly the same as for cell security cubes it should be possible to create cell annotation cubes with only the dimensions defined by the modeler as relevant for commentary. This woudl make annotating cells much more prwerful and easuer for users ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

InformixHQ should use TimeSeries for sensor data

InformixHQ should use TimeSeries for sensor data. I wonder, why are those typical datasets not stored in timeseries. This is a major informix technology for storing sensor data.Why is informix not using its own great technology?
over 4 years ago in Informix 0 Not under consideration

This issue of vertical alignment in column headers for PDF

Creating this RFE based on the below response from IBM:This issue of vertical alignment in column headers for PDF has been an 'issue' for a long time. I have verified that it still occurs in CA11. Unfortunately, it was deemed not to be a defect in...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Book/report level expressions for PAW

It would open a lot of development opportunities if we could have book/report level expressions in PAW. By this I mean having calculations/query running only at the report/book level and not necessarily in a cube/dimension. What I'm looking for is...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Enhance Profile Monitors

We have just recently started making use of the Profile Monitor We are using it to identify threads connecting with outdated drivers. Would like to be able to have one entry to flag PRDID < JCC041* rather than enter a row for every version that...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Sending burst reports from a generic email

The Registrar's office wanted to use the burst option available for sending out reports to their users. But whenever that function was activated the email delivery had the report author's email as the sender, while it is supposed to be from the re...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration