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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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}Externals Folder Maintenance

There are scenarios where old files stay behind in the}Externals folder. Either from file system issues or connection issues during a report update or deletion. Over time these files clutter the folder and make it hard for us to do analysis on the...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support query parameters in projection clause

See: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5000z00001MLNI2AAP/db2parameter-not-working-with-merge-statement This works with DB2 according to IBM support staff.
over 5 years ago in Informix 0 Not under consideration

Deploy new/unused packages without causing performace impacts

With current DB2(V11.1 FP2, FP4), Deploying a new or an unused packages causing variation and catalog locks impacting performance. HOLDHDL WAITHDL HOLDER WAITER HOLDMODE OBJTYPE TABNAME SCHEMA SECS STMTTEXT ---------- ------- ---------- ------...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

COGNOS on Linux / OPTIM ODM on Linux Connection using JDBC

We are trying to use Cognos to perform reporting against Archived data (IBM Optim).
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Generate Encrypted Password During Silent Install of Web Tier/Gateway

For Linux, to install only the gateway on our webserver, we need to use a silent connect and install (cannot use GUI and will automate installation later). For a gateway only install, the installvariables.properties state that the encrypted passwo...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

MOVETB feature (FL 508) with DROP tablespace option enabled

The MOVETB option(with FL 508) has a shortcoming of not providing an option of DROP tablespace for the one which has moved ALL the tables from the source tablespace. Currently, we are forced to DROP the source TS separately outside of the generate...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Performance issues when trying to open menu-window by right clicking

We noticed that trying to open the menu-window by right clicking for example on the table shown in attached pictures, the system takes a long time to show the menu-window. Looking for the root cause, during our tests we monitored the performances ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Excel formatting - apply formatting to new data range as it grows in size

Excel formatting - apply formatting to new data range as it grows in size. e.g. If the data range is 2x2 cells and then an action (e.g. stacking dims on rows/ columns or drilling into a consolidation) increases the data range szie, provided the fo...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support for EC Certs for LDAP Authentication

Please review Case number TS009073292. Hi, We are using SSL to communicate to LDAP Server from Cognos. LDAP team updated certificate but after that Cognos stopped connecting. I tried to import new certificate using steps mentioned at "https://www....
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Stop Auto Restart

Setting that will give Cloud Administrators the ability to stop an auto restart in order for Cloud Ops to collect logs to pinpoint the specific problem more effectively.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration