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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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Interoperability of Cognos Controller excel files with other excel documents and speed

Two issues that reporting entities have faced while working on Cognos excel file: a) Slower speed and system crashing while entities reports their financial information during the peak time. b) Unable to save Cognos forms when multiple non-Cognos ...
17 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

TM1 and Cognos Controller Interoperability

TM1 crashes or takes reasonably long time to process reports if run from ‘Perspective’ in Excel, while running along with Cognos Controller. TM1 and Cognos controller should be compatible and should not crash if both application running in the par...
17 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Support for ON DELETE SET NULL and ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses in FOREIGN KEY statements

A customer wanted to use a construction like ALTER TABLE detail_table ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (link_column) REFERENCES master_table ON DELETE SET NULL; so that referencing values would be updated to NULL automatically if a parent row was delete...
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Db2 Connect Client steering thread recycle

Enhance Db2 Connect client for distributed workload. problem statement: Today Db2 DDF will close the connection to recycle the thread. This happens conditional (recycle-time limit, after Commit, no open cursors, other conditions). The client will ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 0 Submitted

More Authentication Support for Content Store with Azure SQL DB

Hi, As more company are moving to cloud, we need more modern method of authentication for content store. Currently for MSSQL, SQL or Windows authentication is supported. In the Azure Entra ID, we need support for authentication with the Managed Id...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 2 Submitted

Multi-Vector Functionality

Multi-Vector Database functionality (like Milvus). May be an additional functionality like time-series or as datablade like geospatial and text-search.
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Indexable external tables

Create a new class of external table that can be indexed and accessed via index(es).
3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Manta VDS Lineage Export to Alation

Manta currently supports VDS lineage export to Alation for Database resource type but any other hierarchy isn't working for us. We do not intend to have such restriction in place for VDS export of any resource type since it is limiting us from exp...
18 days ago in Data Lineage 2 Submitted

RPM Package for IBM DB2 Software Installation

Summary: Request for IBM to provide an RPM package for the installation of IBM DB2 software to facilitate easier deployment, management, and integration on RHEL. Description: IBM DB2 widely used database management system in our company. To improv...
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Optimization profile

Description: This request is to provide an optimization profile that may be applied at the DB layer, i.e., meaning no application code would need to be modified to use the profile, and the profile is configurable to where no instance recycle (star...
5 months ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 1 Submitted