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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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email signature added to Set the email options

In a future release we would like to have the ability to include an email signature (that could be defined and saved somewhere, perhaps from My Preferences) so that when schedules are being setup there would be the ability to add it in
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Content Manager should wait for the Database during initialization

During the content manager initialization, if it cannot connect when it attempts to access the database for the content store it will log an error and exit. Instead, it should go into a wait loop where it tries to connect every X seconds up to a m...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CREATE or REPLACE VIEW

After a DROP Table the view still exists, but it will only be invalidated;when the base-table is re-created any references to view will re-validated. Privileges for the View are still valid. This mechanism already works for DB2 for LUW where one c...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Provide N-Access for IN-lists containing non-column-expressions

Hi SAS-Queries of generate queries containing the following type of predicate:IN (YEAR(CURRENT DATE – 1 YEAR), YEAR(CURRENT DATE))Unfortunately this expression is not indexable
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to build transformer cube on cloud server

On CloudBI users create cubes on premises and then transfer MDC files to a SFTP server. The time to build a cube is higher especially for clients with data in soft layer.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Throttle writes during chunk creation

When adding chunks to an instance which is using filesystem files there can be a large amount of disk writes in a short period of time to zero out the new chunk which can impact production systems. E.g. Adding a 10GB chunk causes unacceptable clie...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

New UI – Cannot provide an order of Custom Tabs for all users

New UI – Cannot provide an order of Custom Tabs for all users Refer to PMR TS003370023
over 4 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

PAW : Error Logs in the PAW Screen

Hi Team, We use the Error logs when the processes fail. It would be great to show the Message logs in PAW. Currently through Architect/Perspective you can immediately to to Transaction Logs or Message Logs. It will speed up the development in PAW,...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PAW : Cube Views in the dropdown

We are using Architect/Perspective a lot. We would like to see the following abilities on Cube Viewer: Option to revert back to the original views(revert back) Provide an option to Undo the view Provide an option to select different view from the ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Dimension Locking : Provide a feature to provide a list of dimensions to Lock

Hello Team, We currently sometimes update our dimensions during normal business hours. But during the same time, we would like to lock a set of dimensions during that time. We see a feature to Lock the dimension. But you have to lock each dimensio...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists