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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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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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Save and (restore) access plan for dynamic and Statis SQL

Sometime after maintenance, or index/stats change, certain SQL can pick a bad access path. It would be nice to be able to save access path and force db2 to pick old access path. We just had very painful process after V11 migration. When access pat...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Trapping QueryService changes via Event Studio for Dynamic Cube startup

I have many dynamic cubes. I choose to disable the queryservice from starting the cubes, as this would create too and uncontrolled load on the BI servers.Instead I have created content maintenance jobs to start my cubes in a controlled sequence. T...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Customized populating of the email recipients

My external customer (Anthem Inc.) has requested the following functionality in their current Cognos environment, for which I am one of three Admins). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------When runni...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Ability To Search Within A Security Group

There simply isn't an option to sort in the legacy admin portal on users in the Cognos namespace. When there are hundreds of users in a group that is unsorted it is difficult to find a user. I suggest a new sort feature be added to the glass UI. F...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 2 Not under consideration

Annotation-based method with system entities

When configuring intents, why cannot annotate samples with system entities. For example "I want to book an appointment with Dr. John for Fifi on next week" Ideally I would like to annotate "John" as "@sys-person" and "next week as a "@sys-date...
almost 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Add additional retry logic when there is a tape volume that is unavailable

Add additional retry logic to better recover from an I/O error while reading a block from an IMS log when there is a tape volume that is unavailable during change stream connect processing. (1)SalesForce Case TS002782852 - DRISRP - Internal E...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Remove restrictions in visualizations on data item type like measures

to make the visualization definition more flexible and easier for users it would be beneficial to remove the restrictions on item type. Typically there are visualization where you can drag in some part only measures. These restrictions make it com...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Max number of nodes for LSF service class

It would be useful to set a minimum value of guaranteed nodes as well as a maximum value in the distribution of an LSF service class
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Longitudinal Tobit analysis

In many epidemiologic longitudinal and rehabilitation studies, the outcome variable has floor or ceiling effects such as the Barthel Index and Stroke Impact Scale (SIS). Although not correct these variables are treated as normally distributed cont...
almost 5 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Navigation Map Feature

Business Object WebI report to Cognos Conversion gap Feature: Navigation map The navigation map feature in BO is used commonly and Cognos does not have an equivalent feature / functionality. The work around option is Table of content or Bookmark a...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration