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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Set the Content Expiry header in spreadsheet services

Asking users to clear their browser cache when they change a websheet across a large company is difficult as not all users know how to do it. To facilitate that, we can set the content expiry header to 8 hours, which means the user browser will re...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Exclude certain intercompany rules from reconciliation

In Controller Web, in the Intercompany tab, all intercompany rules are visible by default. However, most customers have IC rules which are only for elimination purpose and are not relevant for the reporters as they shouldn't be reconciled. The sol...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Safer Payments should activate the key generated on KMIP server instead of manually activating the key on KMIP server.

We have to activate key created on KMIP servers manually each time before we can actually activate master key change. KMIP standard says it has to be managed by application. Need Safer Payments to activate the key before starting the master key ch...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Not under consideration

Improved LATCH when index splitting

[Current Product & Version]-Db2 12 for z/OS-IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for DB2Performance Expert on z/OS v5.5-z/OS v2.3-WebSphere Application Server v9 for z/OS [Environment]Data sharing in three-way sysplex environment [Problem]Our customer is us...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

More efficient unique indexes for monotonically increasing keys and constraints

Currently an index on a SERIAL and other monotonically increasing keys only add to the last node in the index causing the node to split into two half filled nodes. Eventually a sufficient number of nodes have so split that the index's search effic...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Increase Database Name Length Restriction

Real Life Scenario: With Devops and the introduction of "Infrastructure as Code", a database build can be done via Helm Charts, K8's, Cloudformation templates, etc. Automation can dramatically increase how often a database is built and how many cl...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Avoiding conflicts for multiple users working at the same time on a DataStage flow

With the web interface, two (or more) users can now work in parallel on the same flow. And the last one saving will overwrite all the work done by the others. It would be good to have a mechanism to prevent multiple people working at the same time...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

LOAD - Add ability to bypass REPORT phase when duplicates are present

Processing a TS with a lot of duplicates. We never look at the data from the REPORT phase. Also it takes a very long time to produce. Would like the ability to have a keyword to bypass this
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Applications and Plans: Delegation when people are out of office

There is the need for task delegation when people are on leave in order for the task to be completed and submitted, without the substitute individual having to submit / complete the task at any other point in time except when the 1st in line is on...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review

Applications and Plans: Access the plan / tasks from the Overview pane

Currently PAW Plans and Applications only have the option to work in the task from the drop down list in the working view. We would like the option to launch the working view of the task from the Overview landing page as well.
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review

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