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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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Enable BLOB Display As Picture Support

According to the Cognos Framework Manager help, BLOB fields can be set to display as a picture with MIME types defined such as JPEG, PNG, etc.. According to PMR 83142,442,000 that feature was never actually implemented. When this is enabled in Fra...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of Cognos Treeprompt

The existing Tree-Prompt ist not sufficient for complex selections, especially in large dimensions.An enhancement would be preciated.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A way to save user-specific context in PAW

PAW is missing a way (like cookies) to save selected dimension elements per user, e.g. to provide a user-specific default value. With this it should also be possible to keep elements selected from one PAW workbook to another.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Full STMM support for BLU

Today SORTHEAP and SHEAPTHRES_SHR need to be set to a fixed value to run BLU.The STMM tuned adjustment don't need to be highly sophisticated. E.g. keeping 60/40 ratio for bufferpool/sheapthres_shr and adjust sortheap as ratio taking the amount of ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Restrict users from scheduling reports during certain hours

Client would like the ability to limit what hours people can schedule items to run. For example they want to prevent people from scheduling anything between 8:00 am and 3:00 pm on a weekday. Currently no functionality to restrict schedule hours an...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable HDR Secondary to perform archives

Modify HDR code to add a state whereby the secondary server can be allowed to perform ontape and onbar archives. Whether the server can remain in secondary mode or must be changed to an intermediary mode are both acceptable options, as long as the...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Please replace "password rules" by "password evaluations"

When installing DB2 for GKLM, I am asked to provide a passwords (DB2 and Application), that contains 2 digits, a special, an upper-case and a lower-case character. I tell customers about "quantum safe", long passwords and using special characters....
3 months ago in Db2 / Security 1 Submitted

Lock when editing a skill

Locking a skill when somebody is editing it avoids conflict between users, opening a skill at the same time, and trying to apply modifications.
3 months ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Bowtie visualization that also allow user to associate and disassociate objects in it.

Allowing users to have a bowtie visualization of the risk and the associated object(e.g. cause and consequences) at the same time allow user to disassociates/associate or update some preconfiged fields through this visualization.
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Under review

Inserting an element in a dimension at the right index

Sorting element names is difficult when the dimension is set on Automatic order and the sorting is done on an alias. Like Project IDs as principal name, Project Name as alias. You would like to sort on the Name most of the time. When the ID is not...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted