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


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To supported to use %%BindVarVal to retrieve bind variable value for system i

Hi We have a request to use bind variable and need to be support for i series in guardium
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Not under consideration

Historical rates in a new consolidation type.

When you define a new Consolidation type it´s always very tricky to get the right opening balances on Etyp 1 transactions. It would be so much easier if Controller could get the closing balance amounts from a selected consolidation type when you ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Remove requirement to delete and re-create cluster manager domain via db2haicu as part of major Db2 version upgrade.

Currently, when performing a version upgrade to Db2 V11.1 it is necessary (from a support perspective) to delete the TSAMP Domain and re-create it.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

ISAM configuration with Cognos 11.0.9 with SSO

we have installed cognos analytics(11.0.9) on a Linux machine with IBM HTTP. Later we are trying to configure the CA with ISAM for security and single sign on. where we are facing issues.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Font download to be made available for the users for PAx icon issue

Currently user is unable to access icons in PAx dimension subset editor. One has to enable font download in internet options but due security restrictions this is a problem.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search for a report by modified date leaving the report name blank

The Search feature: I cannot use the filter unless I first enter a name for the report I am searching for. I want to search for a report or dashboard I created, but I can't remember the name. But I do know when I created it. However, the Search fe...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Image Gallery Support With SSL

Image gallery works fine with SSL disabled but doesn't work (with PDF and XLS) with SSL enabled. Recommended IBM workaround also doesn't work.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Pass database hints through cognos

Many databases provides hints to improve the performance of the queries. In recent observation, we saw that when cognos report is running it takes 10-15 mins where as when we run same query at database side (Vertica) with hints it gives output in ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

the task "Table Shrink" allow to specify unit of work or duration

I used "table shrink" on large table, sometime it caused the long transaction on the other application processes due to the logical logs usage. In some cases, the size of table is large so the "table shrink" take too long and impact system on peak...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration