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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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


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Implement nested loop join of external and indexed tables

We raised a support case for this, but creating here will help it progress. The description was as shown below. Please vote for it! Regards,Doug LawryOninit Consulting Try this in the "stores_demo" database: SET EXPLAIN ON;SELECT {+USE_NL(cust...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard widgets as tiles on welcome page

CA Administrators can customize the welcome page by creating extensions and upload them. Additional skills and capabilities are required. For end-users who just want to customize their welcome page with a few information from different dashboards ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

"Analyst" Default role exchanged to "Consumer"

On Planning Analytics Workspace (on Premise) we would like to customize/change the Default role of PAW new users from "Analyst" to "Consumer" beforehand user takes access to the system.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improve performance of L1/L2 backups

Current, for L1 (or L2) backups we need to read all pages. This is highly inefficient and there are alternatives for implementing this.In the PMR we've been told this matches old FEA idsdb00010525. In this the proposed solution was to maintain a t...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

db2adutl parallelism

Usually our Db2 backups to TSM are performed using parallelism, sometimes up to parallelism 10. Occasionally we restore a Db2 system in another operating center from where we have no access to the TSM server. In the source environment the Db2 ba...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Sorting in Cognos 11.1.x Visualizations

There is currently no value-sorting-option for visualizations using relational Packages (DMRs aren't affected). Take a look at the picture or try it yourself.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable PAX in Excel 365 with Optimization for high DPI screens

As described in http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10716521Planings Analytics does not support high-DPI screens and users should set 'optimize for compatibility' We want to use PAX with the option 'optimize for best appearance'. Plea...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Report Tab Name localization

It would be great if we can set page name with a report variable, in order to translate label in different languages, as we can do with any other objects inside report pages (text element, column header, ...). It is crucial when report is configur...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

MEMORY_TEMP_POOL_EXCEEDED in TIs

we are managing in our TIs the return code of the TI execution in order to display results to users. For example, we have the following: return_value = Executeprocess( XXX ); If( return_value = ProcessExitNormal() ); vStatus = 'COMPLETE'; ElseIf( ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Authorize multiple custom menu-items (extension) in navigation panel as alternative to portal pages

In Cognos 10 we made use of portal pages a lot. Since these portal pages are not available anymore in Cognos Analytics 11 (at least there not actively supported) we are looking for a good alternative. Our goal is to create a menu structure within...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration