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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.

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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Improve manage of role members

It is very difficult to manage role members in new web interface. We have role with about 1000 members from AD and loading is really very slow. It is impossible to find member in list. Add new member takes lot of waiting time. Now we can use old A...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TM1/PAL server able to connect to more than one BI environment with integrated security mode 5

Today it is easy to hit limits on connecting one TM1/PAL instance to only one CA11 environment as there is only one BI environment to be configured in tm1s.cfg for authentication. IntegratedSecurityMode = 5 ClientCAMURI = http://gateway.doma...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reclaim free space from chunks

Add a command to reclaim the free space (at the end of the chunk) , reducing the file size. This is very useful for cooked files. Just like SHRINKDATABASE at MS Sql Server, but for chunks....
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support Spanned Record Format in Reorg Discard Dataset

We would like Discard Lob's from a Table and Load them into a Partner Table. The Discard Dataset can not exceed 32K, so it is not possible. With Unload Utility it is possible to define Spanned Yes for SYSREC. It would be helpful if you could suppo...
12 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Running Total Aggregation in Crosstab

If I use a running-total calculation in a crosstab, I don't get the correct values on grouping level. i.e. I use dates as lowest level and group by calender weeks. In the summary rows for calender weeks I get the correct value for my running-total...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Optimizer should ignore RTRIM when calculation filter factor

When the optimizer calculates the filter factor for a predicate which uses RTRIM, it just returns the default value. (0.04)It should ignore the RTRIM and use the COLCARD of the column stats instead. Refer to Case: TS001114316
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Need level based indention for Planning Analytics for Excel custom reports

Level based indention is used in Explorations and Dynamic Reports, but not Custom Reports. There is a setting option to use level based indention on Quick Reports, but not Custom Reports.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to uninstall a version of Cognos Analytics to return to previous version

Ability to uninstall a version of Cognos Analytics to return to previous version
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The customer want db2 product match the new standard of GB 18030-2022, which will come into effect on August 1, 2023.

The customer will have to match GB 18030-2022 standard.
12 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

SELinux policies for Informix on RHEL version 7 and upwards

At startup the Informix database spawns a number of processes, that run as unconfined SeLinux processes. From the permission perspective, some of these processes run as informix user (example: cpu and encrypt vps) whilst others run as root user (l...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration