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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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A need for a differentiation between PARTITIONED and DATA PARTITIONED indexes to avoid DPSI misuses

Hello IBM Db2 development team, could you please pay attention to the following observation and idea for an improvement from one of our customers (Deutsche Bank AG): Background: In a world where IBM have been continuing to make the mainframe an at...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to select valuation date in dashboard

When a dashboard is created, currently it just supports the latest data view. Valuation date functionality would be an amazing feature to add.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Aging of connected accounts to Access Server

When a client forgets to sign out of Access Server and shuts down their session, Access Server keeps them logged in. The only way to clear the session is to restart Access Server. This is difficult in a multi-user environment (as product is design...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Fix timeout errors during pending alter materialization reorgs

We're using DB2 z/OS V10 and tried using pending alter for making online schema change on an SAP table to increase a PBG table's DSSIZE from 4 GB to 64 GB. When we ran the SHRLEVEL CHANGE reorg to implement the pending alter, the reorg caused SAP ...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add Columns as Suppression Options for Lists

Crosstabs provide 4 Suppression Options based on Rows and Columns whereas Lists allow only for Row-based suppression. While Column-based suppression can be achieved in a List by using render variables, this is very time consuming when multiple Col...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow alt text for brandImage in theme customization.

The Cognos Analytics theme allows administrators to customize the text and images of the welcome page using brandText and brandImage. The brandImage contains the organization name and is very clear for visually acute users. To accommodate the visu...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Extend Role-based access control to data columns

We are facing the need to limit access to certain data columns/fields in LSF Explorer for certain roles. In our environment a few different teams will make use of the reporting capabilities of LSF Explorer in different scopes. Nevertheless, LSF Ex...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

Bug Fix - Modfy Session expiration time due to inactivity

WSL v 1.2.3 has been configured for 15 minutes inactivity time-out using the command below. (15 mins is in line with OCBC's security policy) Example.$cat /user-home/_global_/config/jwt/expiry.config xxx It is expected that the system will only log...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Planned for future release

Allow File Connector to manage Hive tables properly when they are located in HDFS Transparent Data Encryption Zones

When the File Connector is configured to write files to an encrypted zone (TDE) within HDFS, with "Create Hive Table" set to Yes and "Drop existing table" set to Yes, jobs will fail if the table already exists. This is because Hive requires the PU...
over 7 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Sandbox Non-commit feature and sharing of Sandbox

We have come across the business requirement as follows: Request to have these features be added to the Planning Analytics tool. 1. Can we restrict user to do only scenario planning in the sandbox but can't update (commit) the base instance? 2. Is...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration