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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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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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Add profile counter for number of long transactions since most recent "onstat -z"

Rollback most of the time is a time and resource consuming action. We would like to be able to monitor how many long transactions we (just a simple profile counter), as currently it is not easy and accurate on how to determine the amount of long t...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Provide performance enhancements to address the sort (for uniqueness required) in "distinct" or "union".

When sorting is used to eliminate duplicate entries to satisfy the "DISTINCT" or "UNION" construct, provide the capability for in-stream sort for this uniqueness so the entire result set does not need to be acquired and then sorted. I have seen a ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Internal scheduler should adjust daylight saving time automatically

We have selected time zone GMT + 2 (EET) and scheduled one job using internal scheduler Now it's summer time and time zone changed to GMT+3 EEST but internal scheduler still using GMT + 2 (EET) If we change time zone manually to GMT + 2 (EET) inte...
about 1 year ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Deliver a warning when importing a deployment with security

When importing a deployment you may not know that the import has security enabled and it will overwrite the existing security. There should be a warning stating this.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

REST API support for Rule Validation

The REST API should have support for rule syntax checking just like it does for TI syntax checking. Today you must "save" a rule to find out it is invalid.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Highlighted Cells in Applications not Totaling in Footer

In Cognos Enterprise Planning, it was a function that allowed you to automatically calculate highlighted cells in EP Contributor. In TM1 Contributor and TM1 Web, highlighting a single cell will show the value in the footer, but selecting multiple ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Design SPSS to Integrate With a Cognos Gateway

Please change SPSS to enable integration to the Cognos Gateway and exploit single signon. Similar functionality is available in Cognos Café.
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Datastage 11.7.1.3 SP3 automatic management of kerberos tickets from yarn client

Hello Team, the customer need that the yarn client of datastage 11.7.1.3 sp3 on linux renew the kerberos ticket in total autonomy upon its expiry without creating any disruption due to the destruction of the ticket and its recreation. Thanks, Nicolò.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Remove MEMBER keyword from BIND PLAN command

It is to prevent creation of such obsolete plans - they immediately get rebound generating default collections so why allowing it in the first place? In some environments implementing strict security is not possible so preventing some actions may...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Excel link function to retrieve effective ownership and group currency other than immediate group

Currently excel link function cc.fCompOpwnp() to retrieve the effective ownership of an entity to group is limited to immediate group. And the function to retrieve group currency cc.fCompCurr() is also limited to immediate group in one consol type...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration