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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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Audit report queue and/or wait times

To get an understanding of the user experience and system performance, the report queue and/or wait times could be gathered in a daily report. IBM support in Case numberTS004090394 indicates: The only places where we can collect report metrics ext...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add onmode -F <type> to free only certain memory e.g. vpcache.

When having e.g. excessive vpcache usage we need to free the memory and associated shared memory segments for just the vpcache. Our use case was smx buffers to it would be even better to be able to just free the 'free' smx buffers.Trying to free a...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 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...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Find what Dialog Nodes jump to this node

When using Watson Assistant search, we can find node names, but we can't find which nodes have a jump to a particular node. This would be helpful to know what nodes are jumping to a particular node. This could be implemented in one or the other (o...
over 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Provide live/refresh schedule connection types to excel file uploads feature and allow users to create prompts in Dashboards

Releasing many newer versions every year since 2015 is waste without thinking of adding live/schedule refresh options for excel file uploads like Tableau. This is where Cognos is mainly lagging behind because many of the excel customers creating t...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Lists, crosstabs, charts, tables resize with mouse

It would be muche easer to create reports if we could change size of objects by using just mouse (no property settings by entering high and wight).We can do this with Visualizations but for some reason this does not work with other objects (tables...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expose Dimension subsets in Cognos Package.

Expose Dimension subsets in Cognos Package.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Need the ability to "Import" or "Load" data from CSV file

We have the ability to Export to CSV file, we need the ability to Import from CSV. To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to do this.
10 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Future consideration

Business Terms : UI Change Request : Relocate the Data Steward attribute to the main screen so that it is displayed along with the other attributes

Relocate the Data Steward attribute to the main screen so that it is displayed along with the other attributes
10 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Integration of Instana monitoring

Hi, Instana is an IBM application monitoring product. Is an integration a future evolution of SP possible ? Regards Yvon
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Not under consideration