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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Find and Replace functionality should be applied to only selected items in Collaboration, not all items by default

The current functionality of the 'Find and Replace' button requires filters to be in place to allow only selected items to be updated. Otherwise all items in the Collaboration Area are included for updating even if only a few items are ticked in t...
over 3 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Support for columns with names longer than 30 characters

DVM currently fails when attempting to create virtual tables over source tables with column names longer than 30 characters. DBMS's including Postgres, Oracle and DB2 LUW allow for longer column names.
about 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Tree Map Visualization missing Master Detail option

The report has a list and tree map, and has a page set defined on County. Master-detail relationship has been added to show County level data page/tab-wise. The list shows the expected results. However the Tree Map does not support a master-detail...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 with Db2 11.1

Our Linux team has already moved all our Linux platforms, with the exception of Db2 platforms, from SLES version 12 to 15. As there is no actual Db2 version that supports SLES 15, the concerned platforms cannot be upgraded.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Unable to convert the crosstab reports to charts

We are unable to Convert the existing Crosstab report to any Chart using Change Chart Type option/Change Visualization option from Demand tool bar as we are unable to view the charts under Demand tool bar's Change Chart Type/Change Visualization i...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Restore ability to set concurrent licensing for all users system-wide

SPSS 28.0 changed the way concurrent licensing works. Every user must explicitly select the concurrent license in the activation wizard the first time SPSS is launched, even if the administrator has already configured concurrent licensing. This is...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Functionality already exists

Full name of elements in legends in Column charts

I am using stacked column chart in PAW. If my elements name is long, it doesn't show the full name, instead it completes the name with a series of dots. Can this feature be added ? Also, I have the user to use acronyms using alias such that the el...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

to have all cookies in cognos analytics support HTTPOnly attribute

Hi, Due to recent tighter security requirement, we would like to have all the cookies used in cognos analytic to support HTTPOnly attribute. Currently not all cookies support it thanks
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Lock hashing algorithms of DB2 and XES are incompatible. Leads to excessive False Contention and high IRLM CPU for GLM xfer

There is an anomaly between DB2 and XES hashing algorithms which means that a 4-byte DB2 (unique) lock hash value passed to XES may not be hashed to a unique value by XES unless the LTE size is set excessively high (1G). I understand that DB2 hash...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reorg Index functionality should allow parallel partition processing of a multi-part selection as per Reorg Tablespace.

It is best practice to minimise the exposure of mission critical application workload to the impact of reorg drain activity. It is best practice to minimise the cpu, i/o and elapse time of database maintenance activity which is often restricted to...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration