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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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Keep Report Description after a Save As action

Most desktop applications like Excel or Word, keep description content when editing a document and then using Save as to save the document to a different name.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Controlling of Load Processes to Accelerator

When we would like to make maintenance in a HA environment with more than 2 accelerators, we are able to stop query acceleration by stopping a specific accelerator or start it with ACCESS(MAINT). But in both cases I'm not able to stop the load pro...
over 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Change datatype of uploaded datafile

Change datatype of uploaded datafile After uploaded an uploaded datafile, a column has assigned the wrong datatype. It is string format but must be integer format
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DQM Model Memory Governor

We have noticed that DQM allows unlimited memory usage which causes problems when you have a large report or multiple small reports running at the same time. We have seen dispatcher get stuck and the only way to fix them is with a restart. Other B...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make New Job... toggleable between Manage and Public

Make the position of "New Job... " toggleable between Pre-R10 and Post-R10 location.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Onclean to display shmem key and master daemon process id before removing them

Currently the onclean command will immediately locate the process id and shmem key and clean/kill it. Example :[informix@localhost ~]$ onclean -konclean: Cleaning up processes and resources for 'local_shm'...*** WARNING: This will terminate IBM In...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Print to multiple printers in one schedule

Need the ability to print to multiple printers in one schedule. I can work-around this by creating a report view but that is a lot of extra work when you just want to print to two printers. thank you.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Run QWT against DB2 catalog copy

Since we don't allow our DBA's to do analysis and tuning in our production we would like to be able to run QWT against the production catalog copy that we have in test. The workaround we have is not really comparable but we have a routine that can...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Access Members from Multiple AD Forests

Cognos is unable to search members across Active Directory forests. Cognos must have a separate namespace configured in Cognos Connection for each forest. This creates overheads on Administration by maintaining multiple namespaces.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Tooll to be able add the Unload Utility and HPU

Have a process to unload test data and load it to another environment. Currently each database has 1 job where the elapsed time is very long. It would be great to have the tool load balance this over multiple jobs.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration