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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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Suppress Zeros

I have zero supress on, but when I have calculations included in the report, the output includes all values and doesn't suppress. In this case below – all materials are being shown Is this to do with the calculation or how do I remove/suppress a...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Private View in PAW and cannot see in PAX

Created a private view in PAW this morning and then just now went to try and open via PAX and couldn't see the new private view,
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Is a defect

Add syntax highlighting and function suggestions to Reporting's expression editor

Dashboard and data Module calculations support syntax highlighting, and possible functions are suggested as you type their first letters. That editor would be of great use in Reporting as well.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Do not lock table when entering alter table menu in isql/dbaccess tools

After entering alter table menu and selecting the table , the table will lock in exclusive mode until the opertion finish. If this table is an online trade table , this behaviour is very dangerous.So it should not lock table until user commit the ...
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add option to DCLGEN utility to support conditional compilation based on whether the SQL option is used

Some non-Db2 programs use the member created by the DCLGEN utility as a copy member because they are processing a file with the same layout as the COBOL portion of the DCLGEN member. The DCLGEN generated member contains a DECLARE TABLE statement, ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Remove the limitation in ISTOOL for Extension Mapping Document import for CP4D

We opened a ticket for the error (file.csv exceeds 5120KB, skipping it...) we were getting when we tried to import extension mapping document using istool in IIS 1.7.1 (see ticket # TS012233188). IBM tech told us that this is a limitation for ISTO...
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

Improving RapidJobUpdateTool

Hello My company doesn't want to use DB2 and Oracle anymore, we are moving to PGS. We have a lot a datastage jobs using those DBMS. I would like to automatise the swicth from a DB2 stage to an ODBC one but RapidJobUpdateTool doesn't have ODBC in t...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Pain Point - CA Dashboarding - allow users to search pins based on tags

CA Dashboarding - allow users to search pins based on tags. There is a search capability, but there is nothing to search by. Need an easy way for user to find pinned widgets.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Provide value for MAXTEMPS parm in percentage of total dasd space and create 2 separated options for sort and dgtt workfiles

The introduction of new parameter MAXTEMPS, to avoid the situation where one task monopolize all temporary tablespaces space, with only an absolute space value as an option leaks flexibility. 1) We need to have two parameters, one for sort areas a...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

OPL shall generate concert model with column API

OPL fails at building very large scale models due to the fact that it uses a "row api" of concert : Variables are created and added then to the range constraints. Unfortunately, such API can become dramatically slow for very large models, and buil...
over 6 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration