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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.

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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Backup / ReadAhead Performance

To speedup backup time, it would be nice if Informix can read with more than 64k from disk. Example 12G SAS SSD - read 100 GByte with dd iflag=direct:Blocksize Throughput Time64k 197 MB/Sec 519 Sec (8:39)256k 438 MB/Sec 233 Sec (3:53)2048k 1186 MB...
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support IDataReader::GetBytes / IfxDataReader::GetBytes for BSON fields

We're using the BSON capabilities of the Informix server in order to store data in a separate BSON colum - like additional information for the data row or optional fields that may vary from row to row (e.g. translations to different languages). Wi...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 3 Not under consideration

Enhance drill in Maps for a more intuitive workflow

Use case:Currently in a map, if you have the same items represented in the region layer and the points layer for example country and city, and you drill into a specific area based on a navigation path that applies to both layers (ex: Country, City...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Add quick edit to Grid View

Users really like the new Quick Edit, but want to be able to use it on a Grid view of objects, not just on a grid within a task view. In particular, since the grid view within a task view only shows 10 objects at a time, users have become accustom...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Custom polygons via mapbox not zoomed in Cognos

Custom polygons via mapbox not zoomed in CognosThe map stays at worldview TS001308541
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Separate app install folders for Cognos for Microsoft Office and PAx tools - TS001084642

In the current state, the installation scripts are combined for Cognos for Microsoft Office v. 11.0 and for Planning Analytics v. 2.0.2 into one zip file Both tools are installed together at the same time and in the same client folder. Attempting ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB size status and monitoring via Console

Hi Team, We can see DB size in Report section, but when we generate report it generates multiple .html files which can be tough for management to review it. We are looking for DB size report in one excel sheet as below for multiple databases and a...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Enable OpenPages on CentOS and Ubuntu Linux

We'd like to see support for additional Linux distributions but in particular, CentOS and Ubuntu. This is useful as it will enable a greater, more cost effective, deployment choices across a broader range of cloud hosting platforms.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 5 Not under consideration

Can COGNOS encrypt CSV/Excel output files like as PDF

Encrypt the cognos output files like csv,excel or all formats
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reset an invalidated statement level optimization hint

If a statement level optimization hint was invalidated for whatever reason one has to repeat the whole process to get the same hint again.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration