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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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Centrally manage hiding databases users don't have access to

Whilst you can hide databases in PAW and PAfE, they do appear to be separate solutions and not joined up. - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=wnim2-hide-databases-in-preferences - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analy...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Bulk Update Configuration to Exclude Fields and Apply RUles

Provide the ability for administrators to define on a per object basis what fields can be updated in bulk using existing functionality in TFUI. Also, allow rules to specified for fields to be updated I.E. a text 'Risk Title' field needs to be over...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 8 Not under consideration

Direct export to PowerPoint

Cognos does not provide a facility to directly extract to Microsoft PowerPoint.Using a PowerPoint “pull” method recommended by IBM would require double the maintenance overhead and also be problematic in other areas such as displaying image fi...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Db2 Unload from a Cursor

Enhance the Db2 UNLOAD utility to perform an unload from a declared cursor
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Db2 Connect Client steering thread recycle

Enhance Db2 Connect client for distributed workload. problem statement: Today Db2 DDF will close the connection to recycle the thread. This happens conditional (recycle-time limit, after Commit, no open cursors, other conditions). The client will ...
6 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

Ability to extend metadata for Users

We require the ability to add meta data to the user within OpenPages. Currently we are limited to First name, Last Name , email and Description. It would be valuable for us to be able to extend to items like Dept , Location etc. This would be data...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

DB2 Catalog and INDEX COMPRESSION statistics (PAGESAVE and BP_UNUSED)

If an index is compressed, it is documented in DB2 catalog table SYSIBM.SYSINDEXES column called ‘COMPRESS’ Tablespace compression is documented in SYSTABLESPACE and SYSTABLEPART. In both tables with column called ‘COMPRESS’ SYSTABLEPART also co...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 8 Future consideration

Controller Web Exclude certain IC journals from Reconciliation tab

Elimination of intercompany revenues are often configured as a "one-legged" elimination. That is selling company reports an intercompany revenue. This is then eliminated and also booked against a cost account. The buying company do report an inter...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Support for Cognos Portlets

Cognos 11 no longer support Portlets that we were able to create in Cognos 10 Portal pages.Most commonly used are the Dashboard "multipage" portlet, the Cognos content "IBM Cognos Navigator" portlet and a variety of the "IBM Cognos Utility" portle...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CDC support remote connect to MySQL slave node replication and creating metadata tables at slave nodes

MySQL has a very high market share in China, and especial to banking with core business system. Many MySQL customers use master-slave architecture, typical configuration as 1master with 3 slaves , and MqSQL as source is one major scenarios with CD...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration