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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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DB2 database in a read only mode

Ability to place a DB2 database in a read only mode for a period of time. Out side of the "db2 set write suspend for database" or a quiesce.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 1 Not under consideration

ALL Mail recipients in (Job) schedules visible at first sight

When creating a schedule, the user has the possibility to use main mail recipient, cc recipient, and bcc recipient. When manipulating a schedule later, ALL defined recipient types (main, cc, bcc) should show up at first sight, without necessity to...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

'JOB' in 'My Schedules and Subscriptions' breaks into multiple line items as per the number of reports

When you run a Job, my schedule and subscription screen does split the Job and its associated reports to separate line items as per the number of associated reports, we don't have a way to tie a report to Job from Schedules and Subscription screen...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable instances of a virtual table using a PSB/PCB using a PROCSEQ to use an alternate index (non-root)

Per IBM instances of a virtual table using a PSB/PCB using a PROCSEQ to use an alternate index are only supported for indexes on the ROOT segment. This severely impacts performance for DVM access to IMS data which performs well via IMS using secon...
over 4 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Currently locking is available by period and by company, and not by consolidation type

In a multi consolidation type/multi group scenario implementation it is possible that due to human error a consolidation is run for a consolidation type/Group even though the numbers for that group have been finalised and as a result of this conso...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

disable dialog node

One of the issues i have when i test things out is i often need to delete a dialog node to verify if something works. Deleting a dialog node with a lot of configurations such as conditional checks, detailed answer, jump to conditions etc is making...
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 3 Not under consideration

Add capability for Normalization from dictionaries

Add capability for Normalization from dictionaries. At the moment, normalization is done from a generic dictionary, and it is important for clients to have normalization done from their dictionaries.
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Show an error when unknown field in a sort node

Currently when you filter a field or change a field name, but you don't do the modification in calculation of aggregation node, an error is printed, telling the field doesn't exist, and it appears in red in aggregation.However, if you use the old ...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Not under consideration

Filtered List View - Ability to Filter on Lock Status

Allow an option to filter for records that are Locked/Unlocked! This would make life a lot easier!
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Future consideration

Dynamic Cube : In Memory Aggregation for Measures with Timestate Rollup

In Banking Sector(Credit Risk Data), most of the measures are setups with time state rollup as last period. But Dynamic Cube Analyzer fails for any measure that is set with time state rollup when I run aggregate advisor. It fails saying that those...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration