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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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JDBC driver shouldn't require SSLCONNECTION to be set when SQLHOSTS is used

Currently, the Informix JDBC driver requires SSLCONNECTION=true for connection strings that involve a TLS database listener. But when SQLH_TYPE and SQLH_FILE are set, the sqlhosts file already contains this information in the protocol field; it th...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Replacing data in System Temporal Tables using LOAD

In most tables data can be replaced using LOAD RESUME NO REPLACE. In System Termporal Tables it cannot. We want to use LOAD REPLACE to replace the existing data instead of having to delete the current data and then load with RESUME YES. The old da...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

TFUI - Return to same position following refresh

A common theme following a user survey was users raising issues around how a tabs refresh in the TFUI. This is either following an update applied, or whilst working on another tab, then returning to the original tab. Users fed back that following ...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

PAW: unique field in permission setting

In PAW, user’s name is used to identify user (e.g.: when permission setting) even through name is not unique parameter. When you have two users with same name, you cannot recognize them when permissions setting. Therefore, we suggest that unique f...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Support Rate Limiting in the LSF Proxy

We have a case where users, if left to their own accords will not eclipse the current supported connections, but in the end will diminish the batch performance if left on their own. So, provide a feature where I can have a configuration file that ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Drillthrough component between Powerplay and Report Studio 64bit

Hello, we use Powerplay and drillthrough reports in Report Studio. We need to install a 32bit dispatcher that powerplay drillthrough function is working. The reason is the component of drillthrough definition which requires a 32 bit report service...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Implementing setting Forbid the orphans (false/true)

Since current version (IBM OpenPages on Cloud) doesn't prevent creation of orphan object from being removed from their only parent in order to consistently ensure data integrity it is suggested to implement System setting called Forbid the orphans...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Lineage on Dashboards

When you are running or developing a report within Cognos 11 - you have the ability to click on a data item and choose lineage to determine where that data is coming from. This capability only exists for Reports - it does not exist for Dashboards ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics global setting for default report run behavior

Although an enhancement was developed in R11.0.8 to set the default report behavior on a report-by-report basis, we require a way to set the default behavior for all reports in our Cognos Analytics instance.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

crosstab freeze options

I am using crosstab a my report. Currently we can freeze column header on report by right clicking on output and click on Freeze Column & Row headings option. However requirement from user is that they want to have both freezed column and Row ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists