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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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Copy and use full distributed stats available for federation from DB2 LUW to DB2 LUW

We use federation to check audit records on db2 blu and match then to financial record on Peoplesoft. All treatments are executed from financial DB (row organized), and pb is that nicknames do not take into account distributed stats nor colum grou...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

Enhance job step details

In Cognos 10.2.2, when in the "Edit Job" screen, when you clicked on Modify sequence, it showed the folder path of the items. The job step details were so much better before Cognos Clinical Analytics 11.x. The information is available if you hover...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Change order of items in Catalog UI

Requesting a custom sort feature in asset Business Term / Classification and Custom Properties sections so the user can define which order they are displayed in. This will help users see what's important to them higher in the list. Currently c...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Future consideration

Allow trusted context to accept CIDR notation

Currently the syntax to define a trusted context accepts only IP's . In view that microservices are deployed on Kubernetes infrastructures, the DBA has to add all the IP's of the different subnets. This is both cumbersome and laborious. The propos...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

ADMIN_USER_MODE_WITH_DBSA and ADMIN_MODE_USERS shall be changeable values via onmode -wf/-wm.

The mentioned values shall be online changeable to avoid downtimes of informix. Especially within production landscape it is very important to avoid any unnecessary downtimes.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Subscribe to report - allow users to select monthly, not just day/daily/week

Subscribing is a simple way to setup repeat report output, but Repeat On only has MTWTFSS options. Can it allow similar options like scheduling does? Scheduling is restricted since it's more complicated. Subscribing is perfect for the avg user. Th...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Local client being compatible for different product versions

The Controller 11 client that is currently downloaded From Controller Web to a user's machine is only compatible to a single product version. For customers with separate production and development environments this will cause a restriction, say de...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Enable maintenance mode with appropriate & consistent messages for users across UI

In PA, there needs to be a feature which stops users from accessing the platform. This can be useful during a security change, data validation, metadata update, save data, bulk upload and many other maintenance related jobs. A maintenance mode is ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Ability to change paper format and orientation for PDF report

PAW should allow end users to control the paper format and orientation of PDF reports. In CA there is an option for end users to choose the paper size and the orientation of the PDF output. IBM should modify PAW to have a similar function.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

pacs and camt message <AppHdr>

Currently the Business Application Header or the <AppHdr> elements for ISO 20022 pacs and camt messages are not displayed in both Formatted and Unformatted screen in FTM MER. This <AppHdr> contains information that is useful for SWIFT ...
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Future consideration