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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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Customizable 'Unable to Authenticate Page'

In Cognos configuration we've set the "Restrict access to members of the built-in namespace?" property to true. Now, for users that don't belong to a group or role they get this message "Unable to authenticate. The provided credentials are restric...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Bulk Edit in a Datasheet View in UI

We need the ability for end-users to bulk edit records in the system in a datasheet view (where they can copy and paste data from Excel to OpenPages). This should be in the UI for end-users not a Fastmap template. This is different from Grid Vi...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Maintain/display target/apply replication I/O statistics for each Resource Map of a Subscription

It is necessary at times to confirm how many adds/updates/deletes have been applied/replicated to a target Resource Map "RM" of a Subscription. The apply process should maintain these replicated I/O statistics on the apply side at the RM level as ...
about 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Temporal Join Capabilities

The table reference syntax for temporal joins needs to be expanded to include effective ways to find rows across the tables that share time affectivity.The FOR BUSINESS_TIME / FOR SYSTEM_TIME syntax does not allow for references to columns from th...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Automatic Statistics table exclusion list

We have a 3 billion row table that we would like to remove from AUS selection and manually run statistics as it is failing due to exhausting the 48Gb of sort disk
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to respond to Ratings and Reviews of assets in WKC

Currently, a user can submit a review with a star-rating for assets in the data catalog. Would like the ability to be able to respond to these reviews to provide clarification, correction, etc as is done on many retail web sites for products.
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Ability to create portal shortcuts to 'Other' Elements

The Analysis Studio package (and other items under the Cognos Analytics 'New->Other' menu option, have been marked for deprecation, but there are still many customers that wish to access this functionality. In previous versions of Cognos, users...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

make SQL cost estimation more accurate

DB2 for z/OS provided cost estimation before execution for each SQL.We can use explain to check that. And DB2 governor (DB2 Resource Limit Facitliy) use the cost estimation for predictive governor. How ever the cpu cost estimation is not correct f...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Request to not ask business users to escape reserved characters on the FTS

Business users are often missing to add the escape characters “\\” as it is confusing for them to perform this type of search. We should have a workaround on this such as say use a double quote to search for an exact match, etc.
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Request to index catalog by catalog

Our customer has more than 25 million data and it is not feasible to do a full indexing every month with multiple days of downtime. Indexing by catalog helps us big time.
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration