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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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Appendable External Tables

Need an option to open/create an external table that appends to the file(s) defined on the table on insert rather than overwriting the file(s).
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Provide an Option to search calculations by Name and by Object

In Openpages 9.0.x version also if user want to check how many calculations are created on an object. there is no way to filter. If IBM consider this enhancement and implement will benefit lot of customers.
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Allow placement of tablespace BYTE and TEXT data in a separate dbspace from the table's base row data.

Allow specifying a normal dbspace for a BYTE or TEXT column to isolate IOs for the blob data from main row data for the table. This would be logged space just like IN TABLE as opposed to IN blobspace blob pages.
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Print Journal report excluding statistical accounts

In the Group - Reports - Journals menu you could print a journals report selecting specific account(s). Customers would prefer to be able to select accounts by account type. Consequently, you would be able to print a journal report, excluding stat...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Support Db2 on Red Hat OpenShift

Customers at the TAB meeting in Malta asked if/when Db2 support for Red Hat OpenShift will be available. With the IBM acquisition of Red Hat, support for OpenShift will become more and more important.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Alluvial chart as visualization in PAW

Make alluvial visualization type available as seen in Carbon Charts: https://carbondesignsystem.com/data-visualization/complex-charts/#alluvialsankey-diagrams This is a current customer requirement to visualize data flow between elements.
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Copy Conditional Styles from one report to another

In case of developing a group of reports within one project the styles the design of data tables is supposed to be the same. And it is hardly convinient to create the same Conditional Styles in every single report when you have dozens of them. In ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Submitted

Monthly values Controller web

When our customers work with budgets/forecasts in Controller they must enter/import YTD-values instead of monthly values. This is great how it works in Classic. Enter monthly values in specific forms -> storing YTD by adding last month YTD.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

prompt select and search option of search

I want to set the default option for search example "contains.." not "starts with.."
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow Informix to accept Non PAM aware clients to connect when using PAM PASSWORD mode

Standard Informix Authentication on unix will perform a getpwnam() call to retrieve the encrypted shadow password from the OS, it will then compare an encrypted version of the password supplied by the client against this, and if they match, authen...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration