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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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Send schedule only when there is data (without using event studio)

Our users are sending reports to external customers and they want to send these reports only when there is a data in the report.If there is no data, then they don't want to send any email.They cannot use Event studio as they don't have access to.I...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAX and Cognos Packages with Calculations

Planning Analytics for Excel does NOT support the use of Calculation Objects from a Cognos BI Package. Please have PAX support Calculation Objects .
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

while generating multiple sheets extract in PAW users wants see the progress of exports by sheets

while generating multiple sheets extract in PAW users wants see the progress of exports by sheets
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Full HDR switch between primary and secondary with a single command and without any downtime

We have 2 servers with 2 HDR instances each. For each cluster we have also 2 connection manager each. On server one there is the primary of cluster 1 and the secondary of cluster 2 On server two there is the primary of cluster 2 and the secondary ...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Online restore of a range partition. Db2 takes a lock on the whole table during the restore.

I have a range partition table with NO global indexes. The partitions have their own tablespaces. Db2 takes a Z lock on the whole table when restoring a single partition.We thought that we could restore a partition online and that all the other pa...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Allow "Asset Broswer" node in datastage on cp4d to have access to connections that is inside the catalog

It is useful to search for connections using the Asset Broswer node within the DataStage ETL flow designer. However, the Asset Broswer currently can ONLY find the connections that are added as assets within the project that the flow belongs in. Th...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DB2 HADR Standby Database act as CDC Source

We use DB2 ,DB2 HADR and CDC in our production system. Now we can only use the DB2 HADR primary database as CDC source. DB2 HADR standby database can not support acting as CDC source now. So we hope add a new feature,ie : DB2 HADR Standby database...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 2 Not under consideration

PAW: Percentage in stacked bar charts

We want to show percentage in stacked bar charts. When the value axis shows absolute values, we'd like to display the percentage inside the bars additionally. This functionality is provided for pie charts: show absolute value and percentage. The s...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make version identification easier

At the present time, there's no way to get on CP4D interface CP4D version. You could get the major version in the "About" tab and some details in the "Version details" tab. But nothing matches the "real" cloud pak for data version number.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 6 Not under consideration

Change the data module used within a report without breaking the report

Reports often need to be repointed to different data sources from those that were used to create them. Scenario 1. For example we notice an error in a data module. In a typical production system we cant just update the live data module, we could b...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration