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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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Improve Excel-import with the ability to adjust characteristics

During the Excel import frequently the data type of columns is identified incorrectly. It would be great if you are able to set the correct datatype of columns during the import of Excel/CSV. This creates issues when you try to update (refresh) an...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAX user created Rollup in Set Editor

PAX - In Set editor, users would like the capability to create a 'rollup' (addition/ aggregation) that does not exist in the current dimension hierarchies. The new rollup would then be retained / remembered in the report. This functionality would ...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow Run SQL to handle host variables as Data Studio does

When executing a SQL query under DSM, there is no provision for host variables and an error results when you try to execute a query. A simple example such as: SELECT EMPNO, FIRSTNME, LASTNAME, WORKDEPT, HIREDATE, JOB, SEX, BIRTHDATE FROM SPEMP ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Add hotkeys to interact with WCA context input

Add hotkeys to: Use selected text as context in a fresh chat Use selected context in the current chat Focus the chat text input Would really improve the usability as it wouldn't force your hands off the keyboard, it could also potentially push peo...

HF timeout interval required for querying application demand on cloud clusters

SSM was unresponsive due to the "select" issue we have seen before... Investigating why symA can not recover from the fact that one SSM is not responding Need enhancement for the symA requestor logic to deal with unresponsive SSM of one applic...
3 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Under review

JDBC Connection configuration of the JDBC Gateway via Wizard

The customer would be more facilitated through Wizards, which would help him direct the valorization of any parameters such as (TrustStorePath, and TrustStorePassword) to a specialist, based on guided examples that make it clear what he wants to a...
5 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Is a defect

DDF Start with TCP/IP should be coordinated between Start Listener and Start DDF

During start of DDF inside DB2, DB2 start the Listener for TCP/IP requests and a small timeframe later the DDF. In this timeframe incoming requests are denied with REASON=00D31032 and follow-on errors. As an bypass we do not start DDF automaticall...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Modifying the Default Portal Action Globally

Is it possible to modify the default properties of a report in Cognos Connection on a global basis? The Cognos default action of a report is ‘View Most Recent Report’. We need to change that to ‘Run Report’ but would like to do it on a global basi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Views - Unable to see data when adding multiple dimensions on rows in a view

When adding multiple dimensions on rows in a PAW view, the data pane disappears on the right side. It behaves as a freeze is applied just before the data pane. It's really annoying when dealing with certain views. It would be nice if the horizonta...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Account description available in Controller web

It would be great to have the possibility to see an account description on one account in Controller Web.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release