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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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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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Add the ability to manually tune DB2_HADR_HANG_DETECTION

Currently DB2_HADR_HANG_DETECTION is set internally and can't be configured. Customer's environments may involve slower responding components and may result in Db2 triggering the hang detection even though the system isn't hung. It would be useful...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

PAfE View Options

Allows users to understand they report layout.
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Internal hash tables - remove limit on amount of data.

As per case TS006348841 currently internal hash tables have a limitation on the amount of data that can be copied into the internal hash table "At the end all the rows/columns must be copied into a hash table. And this is too much data." E.g. A gr...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow Multi-line Labels on Map Visualisation

Thanks for the Map Visualisation.Instead of the label for the map points being compressed into a single line, I would like to be able to produce the map labels in the form of an address, which each component of the address on a separate line, so i...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to delete users from Manage > Accounts > search results

Currently deleting users from BlueID namespace can be accomplished by navigating to Manage > Accounts > blueID and scrolling through the list of users to find the one to delete. Then the Directory Administrator needs to click the ellipsis be...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TM1 REST API / ODATA swagger official distribution

From a security and application design perspective we need to restrict which REST API methods can be used by a client when communicating with TM1 Server. In case we place API gateway as a proxy component (to prevent direct connection to TM1 Server...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Datastage supporting generic API's to an external security provider

Background:GDPR is bringing an eminent need to safely secure sensitive (customer-) data. This is bringing new requirements to the tools that have access to this data. DataStage, due to the functional nature of the tool, is requiring extremely high...
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Excel .xlsb Output Format

Please add the Microsoft Excel .xlsb binary file output format as an export option in Excel. The current file output formats do not reduce the file size enough or strips all formatting.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The DataStage Balanced Optimizer does not support range lookups in lookup stage

Jobs that contain lookup stages that contain a range lookup, when optimized do not have SQL generated that enforces the lookup range. Response from IBM Support case (TS001477845) is to open RFE as DataStage is working as intended.
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Island (Enterprise Browser)

Many companies are migrating to "Island" for increased security, and we would like this browser to be supported by Cognos. Thanks.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration