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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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CONTROL THE DEFAULT DELIVERY OPTIONS WHEN RUN WITH OPTIONS > SEND REPORT VIA EMAIL.

Client would like to control which users have the ability to send emails. Example: "Run with Advanced Options" -> "Run in Background"Client only wants certain users with ability to send emails. Currently, we can hide email option in Select deli...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request to certify Websphere v 22.0.0.9 for symphony 7.2.0.2

Since the current websphere version 21.0.0.9 is saging out in CITI , Requesting to certify Websphere v 22.0.0.9 for symphony 7.2.0.2
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 1 Not under consideration

Checkboxes next to grid items should not appear if user does not have associate permission

In 8.2.0.0, when you have an association grid view on a task view (e.g. Associated Processes grid on an Entity Task view), users would need an Associate action button in order to associate or disassociate objects. In 8.2.0.3, rather than using the...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Correctly calculate measures with time state aggregation rules across multiple cubes.

IBM Cognos 10.2.2, Dynamic Cubes have a data integrity issue whereby they do not correctly compute measures with time state aggregation rules across multiple cubes. A warning is issued in Cube Designer. The consequence is that if business users bu...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for Hypervisor Nutanix AHV

Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) is quite widely used and some customers running DataStage on win would like to deploy it on AHV (currently 5.2.0). Other IBM products (eg. BAW are certified on Nutanix AHV) and it should be important to have it t...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

Excel .xlsb Output Format

Please add the Microsoft Excel .xlsb binary file output format as an export option in Excel. The current file output formats do not reduce the file size enough or strips all formatting.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Object search screen - lengthen space for object names

Currently, the length of a table name or similar object is limited to 18 characters. This is an outdated standard since Db2 can accept much longer names. The pain point is that it's difficult to view or search for tables and impossible to copy/pas...
about 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Query Monitor should display information about index traversal usage

Application DBA's and developers use performance metrics, acess paths, object definitions and Real Time Statistics (RTS) when analyzing application perfomance. FTB count should be displayed on objects (indexes) in Query Monitor, but also on SQL st...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

The DataStage Balanced Optimizer does not support range lookups in lookup stage

Jobs that contain lookup stages that contain a range lookup, when optimized do not have SQL generated that enforces the lookup range. Response from IBM Support case (TS001477845) is to open RFE as DataStage is working as intended.
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

File based monitors

Client requirement is to make file limit checking. We can go with transaction limit, making number of days 0. It works, but it is impossible to make this monitor overrideable (tried changing risk error code with no effect). Also, next to suspendab...
about 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Not under consideration