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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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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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Allow RESTORE TO FUTURE POINT WITHOUT HAVING THE INCREMENTAL/DELTA AVAILABLE

We would very much appreciate the ability to RESTORE existing databases into a new database via a FULL ONLINE backup and SUBSEQUENTLY APPLY AN INCREMENTAL.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Remove entries in the archived report tab that have been deleted from the external repository.

Reports that were deleted form Filenet P8 still display in the the Cognos content store. The date and time the deleted report were run are still viewable from the archived report portal, though an output is not available.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Sync TM1 Web fonts with PA Workspace fonts

the fonts available for Websheets on TM1 web do not include all the fonts that you can apply to PA Workspace reports; as such you cannot fully sync the layout TM1 Web reports with Workspace reports. For example, Roboto, the default Workspace font,...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Handling unsupported characters

Suppose an application tries to insert a character that is not supported by DB_LOCALE. Then instead of throwing an error, a pre-defined character (e.g. an inverted question mark "¿") should be inserted.
almost 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Oracle connectors should support more flexible connect strings

The Oracle connector only allows configuring SID (or service)/port/hostname, whereas Oracle connect strings can normally be considerably more complex. This does not allow for connection manager configurations or even a simple failover pair of host...
almost 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

RTM License Accounting by Token Cost, not Monthly Total Cost

The new License Accounting feature could be extremely useful. This concept was presented to us by Larry Adams, Cacti Architect. Currently, you can define an 'application' and a monthly cost for whatever licenses are associated with that applicatio...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Workspace Tab and Widget movement flexibility

When utilizing a Cognos Workspace for building dashboards there should be more flexibility to adjust and organize the functionality of objects. Tabs and all the widgets should be center aligned. The widget refresh icon should be in center of the s...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MDM CE Multi Edit Screen is very slow with items and doesn't have paging

When users view all catalog items on Multi Edit Screen and try to scroll them, the load takes a lot of time because as we know, MDM CE loads all items between that last loaded and items on which the window is focused.
almost 6 years ago in Product Master 2 Not under consideration

Support for Indian Languages

In India, the official/legal documents are documented in Indian languages. It will be good to support Indian languages like Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil. Also considering demand for chat bots in Indian languages is getting more attention, it will...
almost 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

In COGNOS Analytics (TITAN) need to be able to set "Can run but not author" at the package and report levels.

In the new version of COGNOS Titan it appears authoring has been combined to a single row. Currently there is a function to restrict by Package what tools can be used. Also editing the system xml we can remove read access to traverse by default. T...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists