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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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Support for floating point "DECfloat" data types in DQM so floatingvalues not being rounded to a Double datatype in Cognos BI

Support for floating point "DECfloat" data types in DQM so floatingvalues not being rounded to a Double datatype************************************************************* The IEEE Standard IEEE 754-2008 (previously called IEEE 754r) for binary ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2 to incorporate a feature equivalent to Oracles Flashback(RIMS)

We have an official request from executive management ((John Mikkelsen) for DB2 to incorporate a feature equivalent to Oracles Flashback. Eric Egdorf DB2 LUW Support Verizon Business 719-535-4289 Verizon recently had an outage that they feel coul...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

View filter selection values in Workspace Advanced Report

When making a report using Cognos Workspace Advanced the paramvalues from the selection made on the prompt page are not displayed as they were in query studio. When a user creates a filter that is prompted a report expression that shows the select...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04

Please provide support for current versions of Ubuntu. Version 14.04 is not supported by Canonical anymore. Support for version 16.04 will expire soon, too. New software should not force the user to use an outdated and unsupported OS, as it involv...
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

SpSS modeler Cognos node multiline text in a single cell

A customer of ours uses a Cognos node in SPSS Modeler 18 to access data in Cognos 10. The returned data contains carriage returns/Line Feed character. This results in Cognos that the text being shown as multiline. Getting this data into SPSS model...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Make changes in the Informix backup process using onbar

Hi,i am using onbar utility to take backup of 4TB database using 12 threads and it took 8-9 hours for complete 0 level . i feel IBM needs to make changes in the Informix backup process. Whenever backup of a dbspace is in progress and if that dbspa...
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DCLGEN ignores hidden columns

We have defined columns with "IMPLICITLY HIDDEN" and want to generate the host variable declarations with the DCLGEN command which is described with"The declarations generator (DCLGEN) produces an SQL DECLARE TABLE statement and a COBOL, PL/I, or ...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

FTM SWS node DnqMsifInput, Add a property to control number of entries in Reasonlist to protect resources.

FTM SWS node DnqMsifInput, Add a property to control number of entries in Reasonlist to protect resources. FTM SWS 342.FP7, Application Programming, DnqMsifInput node. We have a request for adding a property to the DnqMsifInput node that will cont...
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Provide a configuration or plugin with Planning analytics to connect Xero apps without a need for coding and data mapping.

Value Hypothesis IBM' Planning Analytics partner Aramar would increase the deployment, production of Financial analytics reporting by 50% Aramar would realize IBM's capabilities of cloud paks and the seamless integration of various software in del...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Encryption at tablespace level

Allow to encrypt at the tablespace level. Add the encrypt keyword in the create tablespace command
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration