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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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New feature to have FORCE_DDL_EXEC functionality for all DDL changes

The 12.10 manual states that the FORCE_DDL_EXEC environment variable can be used "to force out other transactions that have opened or have locks on the tables involved in an ALTER FRAGMENT ON TABLE operation". We'd like to see this functionality e...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Granular security for IZP resources.

We need more granular security for UMS resources in the IZP resource class. Today there is IZP.ADMIN* and IZP.SUPER* But we need to be able distinguish between access permissions for different environments. For example, for Production would like s...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Access Stored report output version via URL

In Cognos 10.2.2 it was possible to access saved Report Outputs (.xls, PDF) via URL. In the current Version 11.0.x this Szenario is not possible. Only the latest Version can be shown. Otherwise if there is more than one Output Format available, on...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Low Volume Suppression

IBM WH is using Cognos Reports and Dashboards to report on healthcare data. Our customers have concerns about users being able to create reports and dashboards that can return field/cell values that could potentially identify an individual even if...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add ability to apply Style Picker formatting to multiple columns at the same time

When trying to use the Style Picker tool, there seems to be no way to apply the style to multiple cells/columns/rows at a time since the 'Style picker' icon disappears from the pop-up tool bar once you CTRL+Click to select multiple cells
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add APPLCOMPAT BIND Option to QMF For Workstation Bind Packages Panel

Currently there is no option to set APPLCOMPAT for the binding of the QMF For Workstation Packages so the packages are bound to whatever the DB2 Subsystem DEFAULT is. Alternatively, you should be able to specify the highest APPLCOMPAT value that t...
7 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Implementation of field filter function in Watson Discovery

Our customers are using oneWEX's contnet mining and have migrated their miner collection to WD Premium since June of this year. They used the field filter, which was a function of oneWEX, to divide the text in the field. However, WD does not provi...
about 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Toggle between Measures in Dashboard Visualization

If I am building a dashboard and I want to use the same visualization (PIe Chart for example), I would like to create the visualization only once and display it on the dashboard only once and then have some means to toggle between various measures...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to select dimension aliases in FM with PA native data source

We created a PA Data Source now using FM to test captions on measure dimensions. We found the ability to select different alias on different dimensions is no longer available. So now there is no control as to what alias we can include in the publi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make onconfig parameter SSL_KEYSTORE_LABEL dynamically updatable.

Make onconfig parameter SSL_KEYSTORE_LABEL dynamically updatable. The equivalant has already been made dynamically updatable in DB2 - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=1152-manageability-enhancements
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration