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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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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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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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Loading Library Visualizations: Please allow us to click more than one per import

From Cognos administration > Library > import. When browsing, we can only import one at a time. shift-click nor ctrl-click are allowed to load more than one visualization at a time.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Keep ISQL, C4GL, and R4GL installation and run time > compatible with being installed in the same INFORMIXDIR with all > cu

Keep ISQL, C4GL, and R4GL installation and run time > compatible with being installed in the same INFORMIXDIR with all > currently supported Informix Dynamic Server database server software and CSDK releases Changing this functionality will ...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Ability for status views auto-refresh in IBM Cognos Administration

An automatic refresh interval should be configurable to specify the refresh interval of the status pages in IBM Cognos Administration. This applies for Current Activities, Upcoming Activities, Past Activities and Schedules.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Remove 8.3 file name support requirement on Windows for DB2 install

When installing to a directory with a space in the file name, legacy 8.3 file name support must be enabled on the disk volume otherwise nothing happens on the install and no DB2 log file is created. The default install directory that Tivoli Storag...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

How to retain report properties after copy and paste

When Copying or cut paste a report from one folder to another folder is overwrites the existing report properties. Such as it removing the preset prompt values, report output type, etc... We want to retain the existing report properties when a use...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace: Ability to reset widgets needing update globally, tab.

I have several widgets on dashboards that are updated often.It would be great to have the ability to update all widgets that need updates, on a tab, or globally. This prevents a click storm having to hover, click on each widget.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support more granular system parameter settings

Support the ability to set system parameters at the application level.For example, allow parameters to be specified based on specific:- plan- package (specify collection, package)- authid or role- client info properties DB2 should have the ability...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

DB2 Autostats enhancement; create Runstats Profiles without COLGROUPs already covered by KEYCARD

AUTOSTATS creates RUNSTATS Profiles containing COLGROUPs which are already covered by KEYCARD. This leads to additional RUNSTATS activities and wastes resources.
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Avoid getting Context Filter Item rows created in IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced or any other Cognos Self Serve tools

In Self Serve Dashboarding/Reporting using IBM Cognos Workspace Advanced or IBM Cognos Insight, when we drag any elements from the model to the chart/graph/visualisation, for each of the dragged item, tool creates rows for all individual items dra...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Alter table / table schema change timestamp in systables (or sysmaster)

systables shows the creation date of a table. It would be useful to DBA's if alter date/time were shown also. At times we want to know when a table was altered. I provided a PMR number above as one scenario where this information was needed but th...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration