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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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Configure folder path display style in search prompt page

We noted that the folder path of processes (or other objects) displayed in the search pane is shown from the right hand side, so if the path is very long, we cannot see the beginning part of the path. Wonder if it's possible to enable the full pat...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Delivered

Easy Grouping / Binning of values

Easy Grouping / Binning of values: this is already possible in the data module but request is to make this also possible in the user interface of the dashboard module
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Company design template / theme

Develop company own design template/theme for workspace; further special colour codes for charts arerequired.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Managing status of DB2 REST services

One of the really good things about the REST implementation is that it is based on static SQL. This makes it possible for us to get to know what services will be affected before we do some maintenance to one or more referenced tables. But, without...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Filter option in Controller Web

Filter option in Controller Web has various options like Mandatory Comment, Optional Comment etc. Requirement is to filter for cells with/without values similar to Excel application where a filter can be applied for values. This option would be us...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered

Size limit of file upload

Current size limit of file upload in Cognos Web is 2 MB per file. However, there are scenarios where each file is more than 2 MB and Cognos Web doesn't allow to upload. As a result, we have to split the data into multiple files and then upload ens...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered

Provide detailed information about User Exit interface in product manual

Some of the IBM software products such as IMS, Db2 and Db2 HPU, etc. provide User Exit interface to enhance the product's capability to customers' particular requirements. Such products usually have a corresponding chapter or appendix in their pro...
over 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Delivered

Dependency on systemd added in DB2 11.1.1.1 prevents installation in RHEL 7.3 docker container

Idea created for the RFE closed wrongly - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=103478 21 vote(s) as of Mar 13, 2019 We use Docker containers to perform automated testing of our products on various prerequisite s...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Delivered

Make TSA start DB2 under system.slice, in order to gracefully stop/takeover databases on shutdowns/reboots.

Since init was replaced by systemd as the linux main process (in 2014 !), it makes huge difference the way DB2 is started. At server shutdown or reboot, the user processes are all killed, and only then systemd starts to stop the services. This beh...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 1 Delivered

Visualization x-axis label from horizontal to vertical

How can we flip the visualization x-axis label from horizontal to vertical in Reports? Note: we are aware that the feature is available in dashboards - Item axis label orientation but we cant find it in Reports.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered