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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Cognos BI - enable crosstabs to return all data (text and dates) from data sources, not just numeric data.

System: Cognos BI tools with Crosstab Funcationality (Advanced Workspace, Report Studio and Analysis Studio). Actor: BI authors and consumers The crosstab feature in BI tools does not display text or date formatted cell values from an OLAP data so...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Control DB2 z/OS IFCID 376 trace volume

When we need to turn on IFCID 376 trace to get information, the trace is an all or nothing setting for the system. In our case, the volume generates in excess of 56 million IFCID 376 records in a day. 99.9% of them are 1108: Long client special Re...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel Process Process Failure Error Message

System - Planning Analytics for Excel.Actor - User requires meaning Error Message when a process executed from PAX fails.Description - When a process fails in "PAX" the error message is "Object Reference not set to an object of a reference"this is...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Setting for rows to buffer in Planning Analytics Workspace

When editing dimensions or browsing data via Planning Analytics Workspace, the grid continously loads to rows when scrolling down. This creates a very poor user experience and the idea is to make it possible to control the amount of rows/cells tha...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Datamodule as meta data reference

In bigger environments with many data rooms mata data management is an important topic. to prevent business authors not importing again and again the same meta data and spend time to rename and bring business information to the meta data it should...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Improved Explorer view formatting options including visually grouping of rows

There is a requirement for a greater number of options to format the Exploration view over and above the simply “Conditional Formatting” function, which can be used to achieve colour differentiation. Including the ability to control:1. the def...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expanding limit of Maximum number of columns in a table - Db2

Hi, In Db2, currently we have the limit of 1012 as maximum number of columns in a table, We would request you to exapand this limit. thank you! Regards, Sankar
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Not under consideration

Add support for AIX 7.2 with MDM 11.5

There are a lot of additional security features that have been added to AIX 7.2 and are not available in earlier versions. Security scans have uncovered security concerns on AIX 7.1
almost 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Functionality already exists

Reset prompts and run option should clear the prior selected prompts or do not use the word 'Reset'.

Currently, the 'Reset prompts and run' option only takes you back to the prompt page. It does not clear the prior selected prompt choices. The word 'Reset' is misleading. User believe it should clear the prior selected prompts. Make this option cl...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Supporting Oracle 19 release and Oracle Multitenant architecture by SPSS Modeler and SPSS C&DS

In our company is planed migrate the Oracle databases the Oracle 19 release and Oracle Multitenant architecture - CDB Container DB architecture. We have the installation of CADS 8.0 and Modeler 18.0.0.1 on our systems. I have learned via a ticket ...
almost 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler Server 2 Functionality already exists