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


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Enable to modify the timeout of remote desktop

TimeLine after an idle session for admin to change.
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Utility for Masking of data for sharing of the TM1 instance

As of now data masking is not available for data in transit or at rest. Utility for Masking of data for sharing of the TM1 instance
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Extend REST API to configure and customize environments

We need a possibility to configure and customize our Cognos environments via REST API. It is not possible for us to do these tasks via Manage-UI, because we have dozens of environments and they should all be configured and customized identically. ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

New DB2z "LOCKMAXCANCEL" tablespace characteristic - cancel thread when N locks have been reached

Suggest a new parameter for the TABLESPACE definition (perhaps named "LOCKMAXCANCEL"). LOCKMAXCANCEL This would allow you to specific a number that represent the maximum number of locks that can be acquired for the tablespace at which point the th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Index for a subset of rows

Possibility to index only specific rows of one or more columns. This could be implemented with a WHERE clause in the index create statement and would rsult in a tiny index for exactly the rows you are interested in.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Add Busting option to Report Views in CA Portal

The Bursting Option for Report Views is only available in Cognos Administration>Schedules tab. Please add this option to Cognos Analytics Portal.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Email text template

Often reports are sent from Cognos via email to the receipients. As the reports owner, we take care in adding a relevant text to the email, such as our company's official logo, address, etc. Currently, whenever a change to the standard email text...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance DB2 System Profile’s history table

Although DB2 profile history tables are available, they cannot currently provide a complete history of enabled and disabled profiles. Actually, a DB2 profile is registered in the history tables only for START PROFILE commands, and only if the prof...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add command to move data from a chunk to remove it

Add a command , at onspaces or sql task() , to force free a chunk, moving the data to another chunks with available space at same dbspace.With that will allow to exclude the cleared chunk from the dbspace.
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

As Db2 system / instance administrator, I need to retrieve instance data without connecting to a regular (tenant) database

Several of the in-memory monitoring table functions and views return data which is instance-related. Still, a database connection is needed just for the purpose of having authentication / authorization / connection handle. This requires administra...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Future consideration