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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Auto-size INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL system parameter and auto-populate SYSIBM.SYSINDEXCONTROL

To avoid manual analysis and reap the benefits of in-memory index structure / FTB. To automatically allocate more than 20MB (when appropriate) for INDEX_MEMORY_CONTROL zparm. To identify list of indexes that would benefit from FTB based on actual ...
11 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

reuse objects and queries

It used to be that I could copy an object, chart, crosstab, etc, from one report to another. If the reports shared the same query1 name, it would use that query1 name. This was great! But you guys changed it. Now, no matter what, when I copy an ob...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Document that mipgap and absmipgap are no pure termination criteria but can impact the path Cplex takes in B&C

As discussed in support case TS007960403, Cplex parameters mipgap and absmipgap can impact the path Cplex takes during Branch and Cut. I suggest to document this because from the description of the parameters one can expect that these are pure te...
over 2 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Future consideration

Add More Financial Functions

Add more financial functions to TM1 such as the following Microsoft Excel functions ISPMT, IRR, CUMIPMT, CUMPRINC, ISPMT. With the recursive nature of TM1, Beginning Balance, Ending Balance, and Cumulative calculations are exponentially intensive ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

User/Group reporting

Need the ability to report groups and their members. Ticket TS001005683 was submitted for this but is now closed.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

WDS highlights should honour Advanced Search quotes

During Project Daisey development, we've come across the inconsistency between highlights returned by WDS and the query. Even if the WDS Query language query contains a compound term (which project daisey uses very frequently for financial terms ...
over 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration

Need Ability for Non Admins to create Public views

Report Writers who are not Admins need the capability to create public Views in Planning Analytics. Right now only Admins can do this. In addition, it would very useful for Admins to have the ability to see private views and then publish them
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow Users to Organize Query Page

When multiple queries are created for one report, it is often difficult to see which ones go together on the query page. Being able to move the queries more on the right side of the page or being able to create a line to group the queries would be...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide a way to refresh db/node directory cache to an active instance

When an instance is active, it reads the db directory and node directory information and the instance keeps it in a cache. This catalog is used for federation, to connect to remote databases. If for some reason, it is necessary to modify the direc...
over 4 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Safer Payments & http protocol

Safer Payments server stops responding when sending requests with HTTP header "Transfer-encoding: chunked" Use case Sample: curl -k \ -X POST https://safer-payments.uat.feci.geci:37911/ \ -H "X-SP-Protocol-Version: 1" \ -H "Accept: application/jso...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Not under consideration