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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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Data Server Connection Table Count Filter - don't display empty user schemas

Filter schemas listed under Data Server Connections to only display those with objects under to be pulled. There's no sense to list all possible data containers if most of them are empty and just throws a warning. Additionally extraneous entries c...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PLanning Analytics for Excel Interface/ Set Editor Enhancement Requests

1. In Exploration view, there is no way that users can "turn off" the working/refresh of the view they have pulled. Can this be developed similar to the cube view whereby auto-recalculate can be turned off such that users can select their dim elem...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Company independent lookup tables in controller web

In the client version of cognos controller the possibility exists to create company independent lookup tables by including a temporary field that retrieves the company code in the upload file and link this to the mapping table with the same code. ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Parent-child not preserving loaded libraries in onCreateService with StandbyService

When using parent child with standbyServices, when parent yields, libraries are not preserved and need to be reloaded. This is due to Parent SI performing restart, so all tasks except one execute with regular execution time. But one task that is a...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Not under consideration

Ability for Life Cycle Manager to save results to a file

Ability for Life Cycle Manager to save results to a file
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Configurable variable quota designated for datasets per user/group/or role

Currently the allocated size for datasets are the same for everyone. For Powerusers we need to allocate bigger size
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Missing format in Filter

A list report has been created. Filtered to a numeric field ([paragraph (query)]. [Time]. [Year] = 2013).The filter text has been displayed.The value is displayed with thousands separators.• For the query element [Paragraph (Query)]. [Time]. [Ye...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IFI READS support for IFCID 105

IFCID 105 contains information needed to map DBID/OBID values to object names. This information is produced on the STATS interval and contains mapping for EVERY object currently open to DB2. On large systems, thousands of IFCID 105 records may be ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Custom shapes to be used in reports as well

Customs shapes can be used in dashboards. Would be nice to have them available in reports as well.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow disabling automatic Next Extent calculations

Informix automatically doubles the Next Extent size for every 16 extents on a table. This action will continue until an extent is large enough to provide at least 10% free space. On very large, slow-growing tables, this can lead to an incredible w...
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration