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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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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Select leaf level elements in hierarchy when creating datasets from dimensional data

Hi, we would invite to have more options when selecting the hierarchical elements for data sets for dimensional data sources like TM1/PA. Today we can even select member of member+children which is not enough detailed to create correct dataset. We...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Save book sort order

We'd like to alway display our shared books in alphabetical sort order.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

when drop-create a unique index , start tablespace in RO to avoid duplicate keys

Sometimes our customers want to add an extra column/change order of colums in a unique index, which requires drop-create of index. To avoid duplicate keys, we often create a new unique index and then drop the old unique index - or drop-create ind...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Increased Character Count for Journal Text when doing Import of General Ledger Journal

Using Transfer>External Data>Import General Ledger Journals, there is a character limit of 255 on the journal text. This is very short for a journal text. Also to note, is much shorter than what is allowed if User were to manually create the...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Alignment format of Reports download from Controller

When downloading some standard reports (Eg. Company>Reports>Journals, Group>Reports>Journals, Maintain>Account Structure>Reports, etc.) in excel format from Controller, the alignment of the columns are incorrect. The headers shif...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

select task('onstat','-g mem') ONLY returns first 30k (Currently Hardcoded in code)

When executing a select when you want to run and "onstat" command, it only displays the first 30k and the message 'Truncating message at 30KB\ ' is displayed.Currently it is hardcoded.
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

MITI to Manta Migration

Need to provide toolkit or process to support customers using Miti bridge to Manta Scanners and infrastructure. Address how to migrate to Manta
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Agent shouldn't run email Task if any of its Previous- Run a report(Task) failed

Ex: Agent for weekly reports. The above agent has 3 below tasks : Task 1: Run a report : Report A Task 2: Run a report : Report B Task 3: Send an email: Attach output of report A and report B and send to recipients. Issue: If task 1 executed succe...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

Hide Specific Portal Items per Group ie Schedule Priorities

We want to control the schedule priorities for some users without them having the option to change them. In order for priorities to work the users needs the capability but this also means that they can change the priority too. We would want to cre...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

support for EF for ODBC driver

Currently Entity Framework is supported only by DRDA driver. It is not possible to switch ODBC applications to native DRDA applications. Rather existing applications will remain as ODBC. Despite of this it would be good to have EF - it simplifies ...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration