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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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PAx needs options to set Auto Calc in Excel to Manual

When pulling up a sheet with multiple tabs of DBRW formulas it is often not the best thing when Excel will Autocalc it on load. Better that the user have an options of setting Auto Calc off or on for Excel by default. Yes this is an Excel Microsof...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 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

Rulers or alignment functionality

PAW needs the ability to switch on rulers or align/distribute worksheet objects to improve the look of a workbook. Current using your eye or holding a ruler to the screen is the best approach to ensuring consistency across worksheets and distribut...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Support of .svg Images in Reports in PDF and Excel Format

Currently the .svg graphics/images are not displayed in the reports as pdf and Excel - Tested with CA11.0.9 (IBM Case TS001418175)
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Task View Freeze Header

Openpages Task Focus UI should have capability to freeze the header panel for task views while scrolling vertically, all the 3 fields added on this panel should be freezed and visible on the whole view. This will be very helpful for end users.
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Identify Adabas return code by DVM

The DVM enhancement to pass the ADABAS TLSCMD parm overridee works as designed and we can see it being passed to Adabas. If the value of the ADABASCMDTIMELIMIT parameter exceeds the maximum allowed by Adabas, it gives us the error RC=7, an error d...
4 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

auto summary's default value cannot be set as 'false' when using List object for Cognos report

I tried this on version 11.2.4 with the document for 11.0.12, but it didnt work. (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-set-auto-group-and-summarize-false-default-report-lists) Modifying "AutoListGroupSummaryBehavior" values to "false" in "Default...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal

Support of Java datatypes required for financial applications, e.g BigDecimal BigDecimals are a crucial datatype when handling Finance data

Support of SQL in Java for Z (SQLJ)

Support for static SQL in Java for z (SQLJ is standard by IBM). NB: Certain requirements prevent use of dynamic SQL (e.g. static build plans, trackable user authorisation)
11 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Planned for future release

Add bitmap indexes

Add persisted bitmap indexes similar to Oracle. Same use case as for Oracle.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration