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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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Please help make Export and Import more efficient

The process of transferring objects from one server to another has not been efficient for a long time. The process is too cumbersome. It would help administrators a lot if we can drag objects from one server and drop them to another server by spec...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Log something meaningful from the python symphony calls when something is missing

When an unexperienced symphony python developer trying to connect symphony via his python script (without knowing that he did not call function conn.create_session(sca) before making the connection call... the python script core dumped without giv...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Add support AIX 7.1 for Db2 11.5.4

I support my customers system which runs DB2 ESE on AIX 7.1. We were on DB2 10.5 and upgraded this Summer to 11.5 which compatibility reports showed as a supported configuration. Now that we are looking at applying 11.5.4 fixpacks, I'm finding the...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Not under consideration

Added a "callout" type text box to point a textual comment

Added a "callout" type text box that would make it easier to point a textual comment to a specific report element (e.g. bar in a graph, row or column in a cell)
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow non Admin users to Publish to PAw

I have a report writing team that is creating and updating reports for PAw that are PAx based. They are not Admins, so they have to get an Admin to publish for them when they want to update a report. This is slowing things down. We need the abilit...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Formats should be Saved with Views

Currently when a user saves an MDX View from the cube viewer in Pafe the format state is not saved with the view. Formats should be saved with the view, they represent a fundamental part of the viewing experience. All users would benefit from this...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make the Db2 jdbc driver available in public Maven repository

Copy of an idea from here: https://ibmcloud.ideas.aha.io/ideas/IDEA-I-2616.One thing I really like about open source databases is that they are so easy to start developing with.In java for example, I can create a project add the maven details for ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Better session inactivity timeout behavior with 3rd party SSO/security software

Cognos supports 3rd party security/IAM software (similar to SiteMinder) using a Trusted Signon Provider, or via Websphere Libery container. Security software typically includes a web server/reverse proxy layer that validates every request. This is...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use Limitkeys as histogram-stats, if appropriate

Recently we had a Performance Problem where I was requested to collect histogram-stats for a column, which matches the partitioning column. Because this was a big table, running this runstats took about 9 hours to complete. If limitkeys could serv...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Ability to drill through from PAW visualisations

Offers transparency of the data and go to details from summary data
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration