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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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Setting to keep descending objects always aligned with the primary parent folder

While not a one-size-fits-all solution, we found that many clients prefer to keep object instances aligned in folders that match the primary ancestor. E.g. if an issue was originally created under one entity, and they decide to switch the ownershi...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Planned for future release

Default current date for date field in report and job

There is no way to default "current date" for any Date parameters, this is really necessary in both reporting and scheduled jobs.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Subset grouping in logical folders

Have the possibility to group subsets into various folders/sub-folders to make them easier to consume by the end user. A large user base can result in a large number of public subsets that can result in confusion when scrolling through endless lis...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Lack of XML support in IDAA

Tables with XML are supported, but the XML columns themselves are not supported by IDAA
over 11 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

When AUTO_REPREPARE is non zero only have 1 sessions recompile a stored procedure

When AUTO_REPREPARE is non zero only have 1 sessions recompile a stored procedure. Currently with many sessions executing the same stored procedure, the stored procedure can be recompiled by many sessions causing a bottleneck. A new condition is n...
12 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Capability to Modify Page Headers and Menu Colors.

We(implementation partner) have a request from Customer to be able to modify Page Headers and Menu Colors used within the OpenPages UI and Object Screens. System should allow Selection of custom colors as part of a theme to conform to organization...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

support list partitioning - Range-Partitioning allows only to define the upper limit for a partitioned Tablespace.

Full Support for LIST-Partitioning required! With classical Partitioning or UTS Partion-by-Range you can only define the upper limits (key-Ranges) for a partitioned Tablespace. The lower partition-range ist defined by the highest value of the next...
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add MERGE-functionality on LOAD-utility

MR0112077423 GGDB207006
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced audit housekeeping functionality

IBM Cognos Analytics should provide housekeeping functionality for the Audited Data. For example define rolling windows in which data is captured. Truncate Data based on Custom Dates. Offload Truncated / Rolling Window Data. Provide Presets for ce...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Calendar Month added to filter Operations

​ In order to create a monthly overview as part of a filter condition, you currently have to use the "In the range" operation and enter a start and a end date. This period must be renewed regularly. In order to automate this process, it should be ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration