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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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Excel .xlsb Output Format

Please add the Microsoft Excel .xlsb binary file output format as an export option in Excel. The current file output formats do not reduce the file size enough or strips all formatting.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow multiple Targets in Bar and Column Dashboard visualizations

We are trying to create a plan vs actual cost visualization but want to leverage multiple plans. For instance, we have the plan at the beginning of the year as well as the current revised plan. In both bar and column charts, they have the option f...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW : Trusted contexts over IPC

There are many applications where application and DB is co-located in the same server. User impersonation via trusted contexts helps control the access of the database for individual users even though a common technical ID is seeded in application...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Future consideration

The DataStage Balanced Optimizer does not support range lookups in lookup stage

Jobs that contain lookup stages that contain a range lookup, when optimized do not have SQL generated that enforces the lookup range. Response from IBM Support case (TS001477845) is to open RFE as DataStage is working as intended.
about 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

DIS LOCATION - Show entries for multiple drivers versions from a single server

DIS LOCATION caches the PRDID for the first connection from a remote server. Additional traffic from the same server using different drivers is not dynamically displayed. For example if a test connect uses the JCC driver and all additional traffic...
about 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Incorporate Trace suspend option into Quiesce command

We want to remove the suspending of the incoming connections via db2trc command and make "quiesce command with force connections" do the same thing as db2trc is doing currently.
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

CONTROL THE DEFAULT DELIVERY OPTIONS WHEN RUN WITH OPTIONS > SEND REPORT VIA EMAIL.

Client would like to control which users have the ability to send emails. Example: "Run with Advanced Options" -> "Run in Background"Client only wants certain users with ability to send emails. Currently, we can hide email option in Select deli...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Update DB2 (DDF) to use a stronger Hash Algorithm in the DDF global authentication cache feature

Presently, DB2 DDF is using MD5 Hashing in the DDF global authentication cache feature. This hashing cipher is long considered weak and guidance is that it should no longer be used. We ask IBM to consider a change to DB2 to up level this feature t...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable/Disable Action Buttons in Excel Exports

Exports to Excel of Websheets with Action Buttons from PAW and PASS still contain action buttons. Most of the end users do not have any Excel Addin (PAFE, Perspectives) installed. The buttons have no function in the Excel Export File , are mislead...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Require Databand integration to AbInitio ETL

Require Databand integration to AbInitio ETL to be able to observe AbInitio data pipelines and other data pipelines from Databand
about 1 year ago in Databand / Integration 0 Submitted