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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Increase maximum numbers of columns in an index key from 64 to 120

Db2 has the lowest limit of allowed index columns compared to the competitors.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Account Structure Reports - Analyze

We want to have in the Account Structure Reports, when selecting a specific account, also the linked structure code, right now you only can see the link type and the name of the linked structure.We would like the 'Link Type' included on the Accoun...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Period locked indication in Cognos Web

There is a feature to lock a period in Cognos Controller. As a result of the same, when a user tries to amend any data, it does not allow to update/input any value. Same period is unlocked in Cognos Web for same entity. Web user is unable to updat...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Hold all leaves

It would be very useful to have the possibility to hold all leaves elements at all levels from a single consolidated cells. Actually we have this capability in architect but not in planning analytics workspace.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show 404 requests in analytics

As stated in TS013352023, 404 requests are not shown in the analytics at all, which dificcults the debugging process in case of error. I understand that in some cases you cannot link the request to a product, but even without linking them to a pro...
over 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Undo autogroup from table in dashboard

When using a table on the dashboard, it is automatically grouped. I wish there was an option to turn it off
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Search bar in PaFe

A new search bar should be inserted in the PaFe. It is important that the departments can find not only content, but also levels such as month / year, branch or transaction type, etc. Or also hierarchies such as articles.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance report Run History properties settings by individual sections

Our expectation is user should not be changing the properties once they are set to default by Cognos admin. Currently for my contents report properties users can make the setting change to last 5 occurrences/day(s)/months. Due to the GDPR policy w...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Build Compression Dictionary on Insert, if triggered by update or delete

There is already code that a compression dictionary is built, if rows are inserted into an empty partition. A compression dictionary is however not created if these inserts are triggered by update-statements, e.g. if you update on of the partition...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Disable query hints in Cognos Report Studio

While creating reports in Report Studio, some users are over riding the governor settings of the packages by using "Query Hints" option in query property and we would like a way to prevent these over rides. We are primary concerned with "Maximum R...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration