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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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Support additional single-byte encodings for column-organized tables

The latest updates to DB2 have added the support of codepage 809 (ISO8859-1) for databases using column-organized tables..This is good for many Western customers, who are able to avoid switching to Unicode (and paying the penalty of 2x or 3x chara...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Reduce nb of click to edit report view

The path to edit report view in CA 11.0.12 is longer and less understandable than tin CA 10.2.1 (cf example)The user in CA 11 need to click on the number of parameters in order to access to the edit button.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Permit relative proportional spread using a consolidated element that has negative weighted elements.

Let's say you want to spead 10000$ over 12 months in broker fees and you want to base your spread on net sales (a level 2 element for example). If the net sales has deductions for transport (weight is -1), you will get an error stating that there ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Separate admin console

Separate admin console
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow Metadata Discovery and Data Linage Discovery for all database schema/table names, including those that begin with SYS

In the WKC Metadata Discovery and Data Linage Discovery (asset browser team) the asset browser is suppressing database schema names that begin with SYS. This is a very dangerous and incorrect practice since many applications use a variation on SYS...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

Use SHIFT or CTL key to select values from a multi select drop down list. It is working on the standard UI but not on the Task Focused UI.

It is useful to choose many/all values with less clicks.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Report Update Trigger event when Data updated to Cloud

No current way to trigger an event to inform subscribers when new PowerCube data which their report uses is updated.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow the DECLARE-part of a cursor in EXPLAIN

Over the years options you can use in a cursor were enhanced more and more, but you still can only explain the SELECT-clause of the cursor. But sometimes access path are considerably different, if you use a rowset cursor.
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Restore at table level

Mainly on auditing needs when you have to get some information from the past or when you need to recover just one table only its nowadays you have to do a complete restore. Would be good to have this feature.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Functionality already exists

Support for Advanced JDBC Connection parameters on ASM connections

When configuring IDR CDC Agent for Oracle databases having ASM stored redo and archive logs, and having crypto-checksumming parameters in sqlnet.ora, IDR CDC Agent take advanced JDBC configuration parameters when connecting to the Database but not...
about 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration