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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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Hide Summary option on a by-Summary basis

In Dashboards and Stories, there is currently no way to control which Summaries in Tables and Crosstabs are displayed or hidden. Currently, the option is to either display all or hide all even though all of the summaries generated may not be relev...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Automatically Renew Credentials with Azure

We're on Azure and our users don't like having to renew their credentials every time they change their password. Is there no way to automate this securely? If their credentials aren't current, their scheduled jobs and reports won't run when they'r...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Improved field calculation engine that calculates and stores values prior to List view.

Require improved Computed Fields calculation engine that carries out field calculation and stores in order for already stored values to be read and displayed in a list view (so they can be sorted by) rather than sorting on the fly. Currently: 1....
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

Alter of Table with Clone without outage (DROP/RECREATE) not allowed in Admin Tool

We have a Table with a clone table defined and want to change the base table! Scenario: Dropping columns A and B, dropping unique index on column A and define unique Index on Column C. This scenario is not possible with Admin Tool without an outag...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

IWA: Need support for SQL function INSTR(), i.e., in-string

Informix Warehouse Accelerator (IWA) does not support the SQL function INSTR(), which allows us to search a substring within a string, and gets the location or character position of that substring inside the string. Informix does support substring...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

introduce a parameter, which would control what message(s) / links are shown on (or hidden from) the output console

Default Import Job results returns page error lines/error links url though it should be configurable to redirect to the customized error reports generated in the document store for the implementation.
about 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Slow database activate

DB activation is too slow because of lots of tablespace containers. My customer think so much time is spent to check or open all tablespace containers. Please consider design change for faster activation.
about 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

NTH Filter By Client WS Name

It would be great to have a filter option on Client WS Name Or Client WS IP at "Near Term Thread History Options" page and "Thread History By Report Interval" pages.
over 2 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

All Reports should be viewed in single page instead scrolling towards right in workspace Dashboard

Recently w ehave upgraded PAw from 2.0.33 version to 2.0.73 version In Planning analytics dashboard we have 10-15 reports in a dashboard in our environment ,User painpoint is that they have tio scroll towards right to view the reports one by one i...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Integrating DCLGEN with Db2 Admin tool

Hi Team, Our Customer was using BMC for Db2 tool and they wanted to move to IBM tools, specially Db2 Admin tool as a replacement for BMC. Earlier, with BMC, they had a interface of DCLGEN integrated with BMC. Currently, in IBM Admin tool (V12.1), ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration