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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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Utilities to monitor, manage, and/or control cloud disk and content store space usage, data sets, and user file uploads

Given that we are about to allow specific users to upload files for their own self-reporting needs, we would like utilities that allow administrators to monitor the space being used by such files on a per environment and per user basis. Better yet...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Aliases and Attributes to be available in the cube viewer

In some models we have various Aliases to cater to 3rd party system naming or alternate product codes. Clients want to see the principal name/description based on a selected alias but also want to add an additional Alias(es) to see an alternate na...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Drill Through from PA report to relational report passed the caption or member description

When drilling through from a dimensional report (PA/TM1) to a relational report, the business key is always passed as a parameter. (Regardless of what is stored in the DrillThrough definition). The problem does not occur if "Full interactivity" is...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

provide Index status between CCR database and FAP to enable customer to decide if we need to reset the data publish

Currently there are many instances where the data is not fully published, especially when the new structures are published in controller, this leads to data consistency problem in report. So the users does not know when to reset the trickle publis...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

A way to save user-specific context in PAW

PAW is missing a way (like cookies) to save selected dimension elements per user, e.g. to provide a user-specific default value. With this it should also be possible to keep elements selected from one PAW workbook to another.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Empty Remote DN in MX MSGs with manual entry in MER

We would like a warning MSG to be issued if Remote DN is not Entered in MX MSGs (DNIFINPLUS and DNIMX domains) because the MSG sent to InterAct will get the error in MSG Send Notification.
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Future consideration

Automatic generation of field MsgId: Message Identification in MX MSGs when entered manually in MER

Field Field MsgId: Message Identification is mandatory and unique so it should be generated automatically during manual entry of MX MSGs in MER
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Future consideration

View/Edit Workspace calculations

When you have created a calculation in PAW there is no way to view or edit the calculation. Most important is to be able to view the calculation, but it would be great if it would be possible to edit it as well.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Introduce or Change Reorg for managing commits when generating Identity column values during the Reorg

When an identity column is added to an already existing and populated table, the table is put into a Reorg Pending status and thus unavailable to the applications. When the Reorg is run to resolve the status it generates the identity column values...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration

New feature to have FORCE_DDL_EXEC functionality for all DDL changes

The 12.10 manual states that the FORCE_DDL_EXEC environment variable can be used "to force out other transactions that have opened or have locks on the tables involved in an ALTER FRAGMENT ON TABLE operation". We'd like to see this functionality e...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration