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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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Single Cell and Exploration Visualisations should have "read-only" or "write" property to prevent data entry

When designing books after adding a "single cell" to a tab (prior to current release that now allows access to fields) if you need to remove because layout incorrect of not required if you use the "delete" key it will clear the contents from the c...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PAW - Copy Member from Cube View

Users often want to copy the members from a cube view to reuse elsewhere. If you select members and right-click then copy, you copy then data in the view. This is particularly important with larger dimensions and zero suppressed views as users hav...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New TurboIntegrator/Rule function to obtain an Unique ID

In our on-premise application, a tremendous number of TI processes are executed simultaneously, requiring to be identified uniquely in the system in order to avoir locks. Historically we used a combination of 'RAND()' and other information to gene...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Publish multiple FM packages at once

There can be multiple packages in a Framework Manager model. If you want to publish several packages you have to to this sequentially. A possibility to mark several packages and publish them at once is needed.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Estimate the optimal BLU columnar compression rate by sampling data

A technique is needed to determine optimal data compression rates for BLU columnar tables. Such a utility should estimate the optimal compression rate without and with the new string compression enhancements delivered in Db2 11.5 code stream. In e...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Functionality already exists

Add SORTDATA NO, RECLUSTER NO capability to generated reorgs for PDC PBR

PBRs having pending data change can be quite large resulting in a lot of temp storage needed for sorting data. Since the reorg is at TS level, this can be quite large for tables with huge CARDF. The following keywords should be able to be selected...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Automation Tool incorrectly building RUNSTAT jobs when TS has NPSI being RUNSTAT

Unfortunately the product has been generating jobs incorrectly from the getgo for RUNSTATS. When using load balancing across 20 jobs, the partitions should be spread across the 20 jobs. This works when the NPSI is not having RUNSTATS. When the NPS...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Flag high volatile tables as 'VOLATILE' and access those tables differently than normal tables by the query optimizer

A volatile table is defined as a table whose contents can vary from empty to very large at run time. In other words , statistics data is often out of date and may result in wrong access plans by the optimizer and subsequently may have lock the ent...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Backup/Restore GUI within HQ

One of the least enjoyable tasks is to using the archecker utility. Many times we need to restore just a row and/or rows in a table from an ontape backup. Restoring an entire database is easy from the command line. It would be very helpful if HQ c...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Permission model for Dashboards and Reports

In our environment, a few different teams will make use of different reporting capabilities in LSF Explorer in different scopes. Therefore they will be creating different reports and dashboards. So there is the need to introduce something like a p...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration