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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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Be able to ALTER the partitioning key of a UTS PBR

Currently if the partitioning key needs to be changed this involves a UNLOAD/DROP/CREATE/LOAD which is disruptive. This needs to be changed to ALTER REORG.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enable profile filtrering by connection type identifying remote requester

I need to pick up only the queries which come in from remote requesters thru DRDA and which is the remote requester. At the moment I can only identify through the DISTSERV plan and maybe DSNTIAUL . Query Monitor doesnt show from which remote reque...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Post profit&loss automatically in Controller WEB

Hi Lab In Controller Classic there is a functionality in import specifications to transfer profit&loss automatically to a P&L account in the balance sheet. This functionality does not exist in the WEB import. We would like to see this func...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Blank substitution lookup table - Controller WEB

Hi Lab In Cognos Controller WEB, we are creating lookup tables for import from Excel/csv-files. These import files contain rows where intercompany data has no counterpart information (blank). In Controller Classic we normally translate this blank ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Less information in error messages

The web application for Cognos Business Intelligence V10.2.2 discloses internal information at several locations. The information can be used by attackers to narrow down further possible attack vectors. The examples are version information and det...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support image saving in stories (ad-hoc drag and drop)

I would consider stories before powerpoint (Microsoft) but only if I could upload images ad-hoc to the stories I'm telling. Let there be an image folder for every user if that's what it takes on the server.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

More default options to set in individual user preferences to make the system more personalized

We are missing options to be set for individual users on their preferences. Like default options to be selected in run as / delivery (by defualt disable prompting, by default send report by email, by default attach report output)
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to send RFI (FI to FI) via DPUI for Originated(outgoing) Credit Transfer

Initiate RFI (FI) on outgoing CT – The functionality is listed as non-mandatory on the TCH 2.9 certification list. It was not implemented in any FTM 3.2 releases Ops tried to initiate a FI to FI RFI on an originated transaction and was not able to...
almost 4 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Planned for future release

Cognos 11.1.7 FP2: How to hide/disable email address text box under My preferences > Personal tab

Problem: We have decided that we will not support email from other email or external email. However, users still see "Email" under My preferences > Personal tab. We would like to request the steps for hiding/disabling the email option. Steps to...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Deselect marks in Full Interactive Viewer

When you mark elements in a report which runs with full interactive viewer, you aren't able to deselect them. Your only option is to select another section - removing the mark is not possible. This can distract the user because there is always the...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration