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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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Increase 128 character limit for ADMIN_MODE_USERS onconfig parameter

ADMIN_MODE_USERS is a useful way of ensuring DBAs and critical monitoring scripts can connect in single user mode. Unfortunately this parameter is limited to 128 characters which is insufficient for the team we have and the three system accounts t...
11 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

Expand crosstab visualization conditional formatting

Expand crosstab visualization conditional formatting to include rows or columns included in the crosstab. If the profit( #Vales) is greater than zero AND the line of business(Rows) is camping equipment, then make the value green. Being able to set...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 1 Not under consideration

Create online hierarchical DDL command

Currently, we have either the DDL or GEN commands to view the object definition. We would like GEN to be online (currently batch only) or have a new command. The action should produce the data in an online format (temporary dataset) for viewing or...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Functionality already exists

PA Workspace: Resize and position items using percents or pixels

Currently the size and position of objects in Workspace can only be done by drag and drop, which is not very accurate. This makes it hard to create a uniform appearance. Therefore it would be better to be able to Resize and position items using pi...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic Branding

Support multi tenant customers leveraging the same reports. For maintenance and support functionality it would be ideal to color brand the same report (report color pallets, list report headers, report object etc). This will reduce the overhead of...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow Flagging Jobs for Reservation Through Rules and/or Through a "bsub --plan" Option

Today, reservations in LSF are handled by the Top X jobs by ordered by Dynamic Priority using the variable MAX_JOB_RESERVE. We believe that this is a shotgun approach. We have millions of jobs a day that require 1 cores and less than 1GB of memory...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ability to set PAW sheet or widget to auto-refresh data periodically

We have received interest in "real-time" capability. While we are able to schedule data processes in the background to simulate real-time data updates, the front-end is a limiting factor in displaying this data. It would be useful to be able to se...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DB2_BAR_STATS table view

Add a table view for the bar stats output
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Capability to modify the top filter bar and font and name in widgets

From our Cognos user feedbacks: we would like to move the top filter bar to the right side of page, plus change the size of filter bar(took to much space on the page). We also need to modify the column name or fonts in each widget. Since the model...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Include process ID in past activities information in Cognos Administration

The Current Activities view in Cognos Administration includes a bunch of helpful information for troubleshooting including the process ID (PID). With the PID we are able to trace that process to the Cognos server and if we cancel the process in Co...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration