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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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A way for administrator to clear dataset content

As an administrator I need to be able to: -Clear dataset content e.g. a dataset created by a user has not been refreshed for a long time. As an administrator I need to be able to clear the content in the dataset. I do not want to delete the datase...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Allow IET to be locked by period

Currently there is no allowance in security to lock IET against changes, including past IET periods. Coupled with no audit log capability to track, there would be no clue as to what was changed. This will affect prior periods if consolidation was ...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

have NVL() and COALESCE() accept host variables like other DB engines do

See https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://community.ibm.com/community/user/datamanagement/discussion/sql-coalesce-does-not-support-sql-parameters*bm723bd631-c8e5-4c0c-a6ce-a5b977b8d2ae__;Iw!!I_DbfM1H!BBGO-0ceowioxh82YN-AlSZ0PMERaPp_Tm4yoQ_jh6qJaw9xW...
12 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Column and Row scroll synchronization

When there is more than one view on a PAW sheet, and either the rows or columns extend beyond the visible screen area for both views, it would be common for users to want both views to scroll simultaneously. For example, let’s say both views have ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Export Data Module test like in a report

While checking my data module you can "test" you data by clicking "Testing". But there is no possibility to export the data to validate it with other data I've in MS Excel for e.g.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Remove all filters option for new dashboards in Cognos Analytics

Currently there is no way to remove all filters applied to a new dashboard or a regular Cognos report (without Javascript). Especially with the new dashboards using the data tray filtering, an end user can easily lose track of what filters have be...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

zSort information in Utilities History

When running some utilities Db2 can choose to use zSort. In Utilities History (SYSIBM.SYSUTILITIES). there is a column SORTNAME where you can see if DSSORT or DB2SORT has been used. The information if zSort has been used or not is vital as it can ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Cognos Connection - Search criteria (where and what)

We need to be able to refine the search criteria to only search certain fields (eg. name, or only description, etc) or folders (eg. production folders, not development folders).
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IIDR CDC Access Server : Improve support of MS Active Directory in LDAP Authentication Only mode

Many companies use MS ActiveDirectory servers to store their user credentials.This is a widely used infrastructure solution. We want to use IIDR CDC Access Server in LDAP Authentication Only mode by connecting it to our Microsoft ActiveDirectory s...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 5 Future consideration

Search not showing all matching entries

Quite annoyingly, on several clients' systems we discovered that the default Search engine is not always finding the correct matches. I've researched further into this, and this occurs specifically for clients on a different locale than English. A...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration