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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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REBUILD INDEX utility enhancement

Enhance the REBUILD INDEX SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility to create a shadow copy of the index, then switch it over on completion.
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

INSTANCE_MEMORY AUTOMATIC should be automatic, not calculated

The default value of the INSTANCE_MEMORY parameter is AUTOMATIC. The AUTOMATIC setting results in a value that is computed at database partition activation. This behavior is inflexible regarding dynamic memory changes e.g. for AIX LPARs. Today it ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Register all dependencies in SYSPACKDEP

Today SYSPACKDEP records the dependencies of packages - but not dependencies related to RI. That means that a user or a tool needs to run additional queries to understand all dependencies to e.g. answer the question: which packages do I need to RE...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Speed control for 'cdr sync'

'cdr sync' is a very fast and efficient way of creating a copy of a table when used with loopback replication. The problem is that it can be too quick and can create logical logs at a rate that can overwhelm replication and log backups. The idea i...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Ability to include calculations in navigation paths even if they are not part of a table

Sometimes dashboard authors would like to create a navigation path that includes a calculation that is not within a table. This is necessary when there is logic within the calculation that uses data from 2 or more tables. As a workaround, you can ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Change/Specify Name of Field in Legend

Lack of customization in RAVE visualizations is a major impediment to adoption. Need the ability to customize the field names within the legend in all of the different visualization templates.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve data set adding possibility to change its connection

We have installed Cognos 11.1.7 FP2 and are having some issues with data sets on our Cognos environment: - data set created and refreshed based on a certain connection used in data source with multiple connections, can not be changed to point to ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set User Preference for Automatic Group and Summary Behavior for Lists

Allow users to set their preference for 'Automatic group and summary behavior for lists' as a user preference rather than the current requirement to set as an option for each report.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Audit Log on Questionnaires and Split Comments based on role

Two fold. An audit log on questionnaires to review changed responses and who changed them, as well as prior comments. Second, the ability for different groups to have different comment boxes they can edit.
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Control over grid view column widths

We're finding grid views / embedded grid views have disproportionate column widths (in terms of reader usability/readability). This often impacts us on fields such as Name and Description. If we had the ability to define the column widths ourselve...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Not under consideration