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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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Font and Color customizations for Plans and Applications

It should be possible to change the background and section color and fonts in Applications and Plans. User wants to see it in Corporate Identity.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

PAX Viewer requires minimize before Toggle works

When a view is opened in ‘Viewer', there is not the ability to toggle back and forth between the Excel documents when opened in Planning Analytics for Excel. There is a requirement to minimize the entire view in order to traverse the Excel file.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

EXPLAIN Authority - Include Explain of Dynamic Stmt Cache

Include Explain of Dynamic Statement Cache with the EXPLAIN authority or create a new authority that has EXPLAIN plus EXPLAIN STMTCACHE but not all the authority of SQLADM (ie update of DB2 Catalog Tables)
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

7.2.1.client-13: does not have the SoamFactory.setSymEnv method

Regarding the use of the following: SoamFactory.initialize(); SoamFactory.setSymEnv("EGO_MASTER_LIST","hostname"); <-- the master VIP (on-premise or cloud master ip) SoamFactory.setSymEnv("EGO_KD_PORT","vemkd_port"); <-- 7870 SoamFactory.set...
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

let db2adutl work cross-dbpartition on one LPAR, as it did before

Before DB2 11.5.8.0.1 db2adutl could work on different dbpartitions on the same LPAR.Now it throws an error that input database partition number/current database partition number are different, if DB2NODE is not explicitly set.db2adutl should be a...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Is a defect

Request to not ask business users to escape reserved characters on the FTS

Business users are often missing to add the escape characters “\\” as it is confusing for them to perform this type of search. We should have a workaround on this such as say use a double quote to search for an exact match, etc.
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Request to index catalog by catalog

Our customer has more than 25 million data and it is not feasible to do a full indexing every month with multiple days of downtime. Indexing by catalog helps us big time.
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Support of Lookup table type attribute in Lookup Table Specifications in Business UI.

Hi Team, The support of Lookup table type attribute in Lookup Table Specifications which has been removed from Business UI now. It will be good if we keep supporting that option as we see multiple use cases where need to have lookup referencing...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

Request to add Excel 2013 as an output type in Run Report Options

When running a report, we currently have Excel 2007,Excel 2007 (data), Excel 2002 as report output formats.Customer is expecting a new format: Excel 2013 to be added to these report output types. note: I have raised this request on behalf of custo...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve the speed for Excel import in Cognos For MS Office

To display in MS Excel, some list reports ran in Excel format take four to five time longer than ran in Excel data.We know that import format is not the same (CSV Vs. LDX) but it would be great if the speed could be improved
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration