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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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Show altered Sequence value in Db2 Catalog

Currently the next value of a sequence can not be easily retrieved from the catalog after a ALTER SEQUENCE command (without retrieving it and increasing it at the same time). Especially when moving from one environment to another it is important t...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Hide / UnHide Columns after generated report

Provide the options for setting Columns to Hide / UnHide after a report is generated. The Saved custom view can be updated.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sort from one menu

We can sort by column by "Sort ascending" or "Sort descending" on Operation menu.(Fig.1)But when we would like to sort data by multiple column, we need to use arrange function on the box there is "Code an operation...". (Fig.2)So we would like to ...
over 4 years ago in watsonx.ai 2 Planned for future release

DB2 should use the HWM value instead of total allocation for restores on AUTO storage dbs

This is general problem for db2 restore with automatic storage environments. The redirected restore requires total space allocated on source DB tablespaces instead of traditional HWM space requirements. This increases the space requirements on the...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Extract groups roles and capabilities from the system

As a system administrator I need the possibility to extract groups roles and capabilities from the system. As a modern BI tool this functionality should be available from within Cognos.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Support of IBM DB2 Data Server Driver Package (instead of DB2 Data Server Client)

Support of the different DB2 Data Server Driver Packages instead/in addition to DB2 Data Server Client. The big advantage is, that the Driver Packages are much smaller and also easier to install. Also they don't need any additional DB2-User.
12 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Informix HQ: Display kind of DBSpace type

Informix HQ (1.0.0 2019-02-07) has the functionality to display dbspaces (Storage --> Spaces). The Type column shows temporary dbspace, sbspace and dbspace. It does not show e.g. the Physical Log Dbspace. (onsta -d flag P). Furthermore HQ could...
over 5 years ago in Informix 0 Not under consideration

Support cataloging Hive data in IBM Analytics Engine

Hive is a popular interface for querying data in the WDP. It is desirable that this data can be catalogued.
over 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 7 Not under consideration

Add week numbers to the calendar/date prompt widget in Cognos reporting

Add week numbers to the calendar/date prompt widget
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel Process Process Failure Error Message

System - Planning Analytics for Excel.Actor - User requires meaning Error Message when a process executed from PAX fails.Description - When a process fails in "PAX" the error message is "Object Reference not set to an object of a reference"this is...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration