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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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Dynamic Plan Stability - Option to restabilize an invalidated query missing

We've got several SQL queries stabilized with dynamic plan stability. Reason is to prevent them from getting a bad accesspath. After operations like "ALTER TABLE ... ROTATE PARTITION..." the query is flagged to valid N in SYSIBM.SYSDYNQRY. Than we...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Option to open report in new tab/window

Reports can be toggled in the Navigation Menu, but the ability to view reports side-by-side would be useful. An option to open the report into a new tab/window would be helpful
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable Touch Screen Support for TM1 Web and Planning Analytics Workspace

We currently have a customer whom have deployed touchscreen laptops to users. When using PAX sheets in PAW, and using the spreading functionality, we can see the value to be spread is duplicated in the target cells. This only happens with the touc...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

We would like to have FTM in High Availability

In an HA environment with 2 FTM SWIFT nodes there is a restriction to have a single copy of the FTM SWIFT code in a shared library /usr/lpp/IBM/ftmswift/v300, visible from both LPARs
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Specify Drill Target Report format when drilling from Dashboard

In Cognos Analytics 11 when drilling through from a Dashboard visualization to a Report want to have the option to select the target report format.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Be able to import (the metadata of) a package in a data module

Be able to import (the metadata of) a package in a data module: when you import a package in a data module, it is considered a black box that you cannot further process (add items, hide items, add calculations, etc. We want a package import to be ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Use AI to provide a summary of text fields

databases provide limited capability for aggregating text - Min / Max / Count is about it. But AI is demonstrating how it can provide a summary from a lot of text input. We could use AI to provide a text summary. For example, we could have a produ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Improve Data Module references in reports

Currently, when selecting an item from a data module, the following "link" to that item is made: [C].[C_<datamodule_name>].[QUERYSUBJECT].[ITEM] However, the moment the data module is renamed, the report breaks.. To avoid compatibility issue...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Break-In for Mass-delete

Enhance the break-in-process so that it also applies for mass deletes and that these deletes can break in into PWFI-transactions bound with RELEASE(DEALLOCATE).
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Customization-option of books in PAW

PAW doesn't provide option for books external customization. When we have many books, it is hard to find proper on start page of PAW- all looks like the same. Customers complain about home page of PAW- there is no option to customize nor books ref...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration