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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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Db2 Connect Client steering thread recycle

Enhance Db2 Connect client for distributed workload. problem statement: Today Db2 DDF will close the connection to recycle the thread. This happens conditional (recycle-time limit, after Commit, no open cursors, other conditions). The client will ...
7 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Make Db2 Connect ready for the future (which is already here)

Hi IBM Community, hi IBM Support, as part of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux version change, at the moment we have to set up many new server systems for the application software we support.Our application software relies heavily on DB2 and so the IBM D...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Master Data Explorer UI should provide entity count pre-search no matter the version

It gives any data consumer a glimpse into the entity count ahead, instead of the NaN count that we see today in 4.8.
3 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Add rounded border edges to 11.1 visualisations in Report Authoring, with a Corner Radius property like in Dashboards.

If you copy a visualisation with rounded edges (e.g. corner radius 10px) from a dashboard to a report, the rounded edges are not supported in reports for the 11.1 visualisations, so they are removed. This makes drilling through from a dashboard to...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Add Arm64 support for Net.IBM.Data.Db2-osx

I am trying to use the dotnet library Net.IBM.Data.Db2-osx on an Apple Macbook M3 Pro, but it fails to work. I was told it is because the library does not support Arm64 systems. Can we add Arm64 support? See this thread for back story.
10 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2 Submitted

Prebuilt row count function on Cognos Report

We've noticed a challenge with our reports: users often need to gauge the scope of the data they're dealing with, which currently isn't straightforward in Cognos Reporting. While our reports can generate outputs ranging from 10,000 to 3 million re...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Dashboard data tray available in Read mode

The data tray is only available in Edit mode. Often users want to be able to see the numbers behind the visual. Currently the user either has to switch to edit mode.We dont want basic users seeing the complexity of dashboard authoring tools just t...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Enhance Pie Chart with Additional Dimension\Hierarchy Level to Support Sunburst Chart effect

I would like to propose an enhancement to the existing Pie Chart functionality in PAW. Currently, the Pie Chart supports visualization for a single dimension, which limits its ability to display hierarchical data effectively. I request an enhancem...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enable shell command to recall the archive file stored in Centera storage

In a scenario where the customer gets an audit request to retrieve the older data stored in the archive file and copied over to Centera storage, for a given date range, the customer currently has to use the "Recall complete file" option through Op...
3 months ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

Enable/Disable SuppressZero for All Widgets on a Tab

Currently, when working with a page on a book containing multiple widgets (such as cube views and charts), enabling or disabling the SuppressZero option needs to be performed individually for each widget. I propose adding an option to enable or di...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted