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


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Expand DB2 Profile Wildcard Support to Client Property Parameters

We need DB2 Profile table wildcard support to extend to the client property parameters: CLIENT_APPLNAME, CLIENT_USERID and CLIENT_WRKSTNNAME.
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enable HA/failover functionality at instance level or for groups of databases

DB2 performs failover only at the database level. If a group/set of databases are related, e.g. used for the same application, those databases should ideally failover together, but under the current design, those failovers have to be done individu...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Allow for inclusion of custom Cognos "Hints" within Reports & Dashboards

Interactive reports and dashboards, when designed well, are mostly self-explanatory to use. However, there is often a need for just bit of user instruction. There are ways to build this in today using HTML items, javascript, links to external docu...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

possibility to distribute event files over many directories or subdirectories

If there are thousands of event files under 1 directory the speed to access the files will be slow and much faster if distributed over many directories
7 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Data Management 1 Not under consideration

PA for Excel: Undo button in Viewer

Undo button in Viewer would make life much easier.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

PA for Excel: Drop down that shows/opens saved views in Viewer

It would be great to have a drop down in Viewer that shows/opens saved views.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

DB2 STANDBY REPLAY DELAY caused by Offline reorg

IBM case: TS008415413 When an OFFLINE REORG is submitted on Primary, the REPLAY on STANDBY (both Principal and Auxiliary) applies the transactional logs till the BUILD phase. When the reorg moves to recreate or updates the INDEXES, the REPLAYS sto...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Future consideration

Enable to make the printer name drop down list or the whole property pane broader, in order to be able to distinguish the similar long names of the printers in the new CA user interface as well

Description of the issue: if the printer names are too long and similar, it is not possible to distinguish them in the new CA user interface simply and at the first look.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enable auto zoom to work even with the small custom regions in Reports in CA

Description of the issue: when you are using a custom map in a map visualisation in a Report that contains only small regions (e.g. like custom defined regions in a city), the auto zoom in the map visualisation doesn’t work, i.e. you see at the be...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sort Column on Packages in Data Modules (Month Name)

Currently relational Framework packages are not able to sort Month Name by date. This creates dashboarding problems for users trying to do ad-hoc analysis on governed data.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration