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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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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Db2 LUW TSM incremental and/or delta backups from FlashCopy off-load server based backup

The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of Germany (BaFin) uses the Spectrum Protect Snaphot (SPS, aka FlashCopy Manager, FCM) software to create Db2 FlashCopy Backups and to offload them to a backup system. From this backup system are Db2 bac...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Update Drill-Through Definitions Parameters Window to be more user friendly

It would be very helpful to update the Drill-Through definitions Parameters window to be more user friendly if it were possibly to do things such as changing every "Method" simultaneously to "Pass Parameter Value" or another option. Many times, es...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IBM Planning Analytics Workspace dynamic screen size scaling

Currently in Planning Analytics Workspace 2.0.72 you need to setup width and height of page size in pixels. You cannot set percents. It would be great if you could set page size (width x height) to 100% x 100% and then it would dynamically scale a...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

auto size search and select prompt in cognos report studio

By default the search and select prompt has fixed width when used on the prompt page, there is a system setting where it expands to width of contents automatically. Unfortunately that setting never worked at all, check note belowhttp://www-01.ibm....
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Calculation Function: Dedup or non-invasive REMOVE for lists

When trying to write out a function, we keep running into a situation as we get deeper into the hierarchy, and information is pulled from ancestors we keep having occasional duplicate values that might form a list. There are no functions or method...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 3 Future consideration

Send count(distinct ... for ...) to database when DB2_COUNT_DISTINCT_SCALAG (DB2 11.5.5) is active (Cognos 11.1.7)

We have thousands of complex reports with expressions like that: "count(distinct ... for ...)". Cognos (DQM) uses a workaround to push expressions like that to the database (row_number+count). This workaround works only in simple cases but not in ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Configure offset of date picker via UseExcelSerialDate

It is great that you implemented the date picker for workspace, but... When UseExcelSerialDate=F the offset for the date picker is Jan 1st 1900, whereas for date commands like DATE ist is Jan 1st 1960. This should be aligned to be consistent!
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Remove unsuccessful login entries labeled as "Not Available" from Cognos Analytics audit package

When we tried to find out the logon information using the audit package in Cognos Analytics then we noticed that the user name details are showing as 'not available' in the audit report. Detailed explanation: When the logging level for ContentMana...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Missing job step details in my activities and schedules tab for end users

Hello, as end user I dont have anymore information about what is being executed as a step (report) inside a job. When I run a job and go in my activities and schedules in "current" tab, I see only the job running without information how many repor...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have the ability to save the record in OpenPages when in a helper.

Currently if you move from a task view to a helper application you cannot do interim saves of the data while you are working in the helper application so that you do not lose your work if your session is unexpectedly terminated. I am looking to be...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review