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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.

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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Improved administration capabilities on Uploaded files for CA11

In CA11, we can only control Path and Size of uploaded files (via configuration). More administration capabilities on uploaded files should be added in future releases of C11:-admin screen/pane to see all files at a glance (similar to schedules fo...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set Partition Index, DPSI to the same DSSIZE as Tablespace when converting to RPN and ALTER TABLESPACE DSSIZE is after ALTER TABLESPACE PAGENUM RELATIVE

In numerous cases it is impossible to put the ALTER TABLESPACE DSSIZE in front of the ALTER TABLESPACE PAGENUM RELATIVE due to the number of partitions and page size. Currently this only works with the following. After the reorg materialization th...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to upload custom code such as javascript

Within Cognos Analytics one has the ability to customize Themes, Extensions, Views & Parameters (current tabs) via Manage > Customization by uploading files to the Cognos Analytics Environment. Please add an additional tab such as Code or C...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Future consideration

Modernize dbexport/dbimport and control them from HQ

dbexport and dbimport are useful tools, very easy to use and straight forward. but as the database are growing exponentially, the tool is showing its limitations and a workaroud must be generally be applied, which are kind of time consuming to wri...
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 3 Not under consideration

Adding a View in PAW will add the 'Default' view if available

When right clicking on a view in PAW PAW should check for and open the default view (Public / Private) if available. this is the same behavior as architect
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW overview of the folder/book structure incl. permissions

Regarding “corporate usability” PAW is missing an overview of the folder/book structure. Currently you have no chance to keep track of the folders underlying books and especially the permissions. At least there should be a way to export the whole ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Reconciliation rules per dimension, not only legal entity

In the section "Reconciliation" in Controller Web you can see three reconciliation rules Debit - Credit, OB-CB and any account rules. However, the rules are only applied on legal entity level and not per extended dimension. Would be a great advant...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Imroved administration of linked structures

The administration of linked structures (Company - Dim1/2/3/4) with a great number of companies, is very time consuming. With many companies, having more or less the same access to dimensions but with minor differences, you need to set up and main...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Edit Option for Custom Calculations in PAW

There is no option to edit the calculation that created in the planning analytics workspace, only way to edit is to remove and recreate a new calculation again.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Future consideration

Option to write informational or warning messages to flow log

Several customers use this option currently in DataStage 11.7. to write calculated values like UserStatus to the Job Log. In the past Basic Functions like DSLogWarn and DSLogInfo are available (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iis/11.7?topic=programmin...
5 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted