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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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Backup from RSS or HDR Secondaries using ontape, onunload, onbar, dbexport

In HDR enviroments, being able to backup or export databases from and HDR, HDR read-only, or an RSS secondary server is critical. Programs like ontape, onunload, dbexport, and onbar generate locks on tables during backups and data-exports. This cr...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Show column type in PDM (physical data model) list

Have the column type information when showing the physical data model in the catalog.
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Allow display of more than 50 governance artifacts

When we list the governance artifacts (e.g. data classes), it only shows the first 50 itens of the list and gives us the option to show the next 50 ones. We need it to show different subsets of itens (e.g. show 20 or 50 or 100 or x itens per page).
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 5 Delivered

Cognos Event Studio need to work in Google Chrome

Many Cognos modules, like Cognos Event Studio does not work with Navigator Google Chrome 64And It works only with Internet Explorer.But all other funcionality works with Chrome. So, I had to explain to our users that this module only works in Inte...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 7 Delivered

Monitor element, or audit/diagnostic utility, that identifies TLS version of an active DB2 LUW connection (application or session)

We are on the path now to enforcing TLS 1.2 for all SSL at my company. To make it easier for developers, at this point we have enabled TLS 1.2 but are continuing to allow TLS 1.0 and 1.1 database connections. We are hesitant to simply disable TLS ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Security 1 Delivered

IBM does not support SSL communications for 2-phase commit (DB2 & MQ)

TS010796788 : DB2 - SSL - Two-Phase commit failures We are mandate to close unsecured connections to DB2 by closing the TCP/IP connections to DB2. However, we are using 2 -phase commit in between MQ and DB2, which looks for TCP channel opened. As ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Security 4 Delivered

Enable XLSX format for FastMap Export

FastMap supports XLSX format for importing data, but export currently only supports XLS format. Customers are starting to deprecate XLS, and need a way to also configure the OpenPages export to use XLSX format. Alternatively they need to disable t...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 5 Delivered

PAW: User friendly Multiple Selection for Header Dimensions including Calculation options

The process of selecting some elements from a header dimension, including the possibility to select the calculation mode for these elements (min, max, sum, average, …), in diagrams as well as in tables, is not too user-friendly. Current workaround...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 8 Delivered

Sizing of crosstab and tables in dashboards

You should make customization of text in crosstabs and tables in Dashboarding possible. Right now they often take way too much room when included in dashboards. Would really like to be able to set font size, padding and other so the tables could b...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

SPSS Modeler Japanese Text Analysis support

Japanese text analysis didn't implement for v18.1 , though it had been supported until v18.0 , due to third vendor component dependency.
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Delivered