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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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[PAfE] Application.ScreenUpdating should be restored

Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel enables Application.ScreenUpdating with RefreshBook. It causes significant performance loss with our existing macros. As we have many macros, it is unrealistic to add Application.ScreenUpdating = False in all...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add '#'-sign as comment identifier in dbaccess

To make migration from ISQL sql scripts towards dbaccess scripts easier it would be benificial that dbaccess would support the '#' as comment lidentifier. This identifier is accepted in ISQL and 4GL and it would be great if dbaccess would also sup...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DISPLAY PROCEDURE add ability to filter started/stopped procedures

the current -DISPLAY PROCEDURE only allows to display all procedures with a scope of group or local, in all statuses. The ability to filter on procedures that are in a particular state would be significant for error checking and system up time.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide a way to refresh db/node directory cache to an active instance

When an instance is active, it reads the db directory and node directory information and the instance keeps it in a cache. This catalog is used for federation, to connect to remote databases. If for some reason, it is necessary to modify the direc...
about 4 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Alphabetical order of signons, when report is started

When a report is run, where more than one signon is used, they signons are not ordered alphabetically (see screenshot). Signons should always be ordered alphabetically.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Query items in package should be ordered alphabetically depending on the content language

In Frameworkmanager, the query items can be ordered alphabetically with two options (A-Z or Z-A, see screenshot #1).But when using more than one language in frameworkmanager and changing the language, the sortorder stays the same, only the query i...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add DSNTIAUL comments support in SYSIN

We normally use DSNTIAUL with several SELECT statment coming from other applications. We would like to use them in the SYSIN statement but because some of this queries has the comment row that begins with '--' characters, it does not work. To all...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

dcadmin.bat unsecured credentials

Cognos BI has a command-line utility called dcadmin.bat which is used for Dynamic Cube administration tasks such as stopping and starting cubes. Normally this utility will be used as part of a Windows Batch file. The utility requires the administr...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

No pre-emptive query on COUNT DISTINCT/non-additive measures

When the user builds a query against a Dynamic Cube that involves more than 1 measure then the Query Service tends to generate a database query including every measure. This is a good thing for simple SUM aggregated measures but for COUNT DISTINCT...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report/API endpoint for generating a reporting containing OpenPages Profiles and reports assigned

Report/API endpoint for generating a reporting containing OpenPages Profiles and reports assigned, we need this report as when OpenPages packages are deployed which contain profile changes it overrides the report mapping and end users loose access...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Not under consideration