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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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Enhance the processing of large db2dsdriver.cfg files with a large number of entries.

Larger customers with a significant number of database servers and databases have created db2dsdriver.cfg files with 1000's of database entries. The current method for processing these to make a connection is not very efficient and can significant...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Enable folders for cubes in Planning Analytics Workspace

Due to a large number of cubes we have on TM1 server , we would like to group the cubes into folders to to help clients to navigate the list of cubes (currently over 200)
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable sorting by cube alias in Workspace

We would have a feature allowing to sort by cube alias. We use business names (aliases) for cube name and would like to have the product capability to sort by business name, thus enabling users to easily navigate to the group of cubes associated w...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to hide "levels" rollup in PAX

When you expand a dimension in PAX there are the following items a user can expand: Subsets, Private Subsets, Levels, and Members. When compared to CAFE, showing Levels is new functionality in Planning Analytics. Having levels displayed does not m...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Are sparse files supported by Db2

During a Restore of sparse files - where a large file is allocated, but is not fully created physically (preparation and population of many of the underlying blocks is deferred until they are needed)
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Not under consideration

Allow user to sumit a job that that can override auto-attach and have a null SLA

Some users jobs are normally auto-attached, but there are times when they actually wish for those jobs to not be assigned to an SLA. Make this possible.
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Workflow Functionality to query, filter, and associate UNRELATED objects.

Give workflows the ability to filter on, query, or associate unrelated objects. To allow logical based associations, field lookups in non-preference objects, and validation against unrelated objects.
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Not under consideration

Add to the display when you mouse over a data point on a Line Graph on a Dashboard the number of occurrences of the metric that were used to get the summarized value.

We have a Line Graph on a Cognos Analytics Dashboard. The x-axis are Dates We have a metric that falls in one of 3 categories. In the Dashboard UI, I created 4 variables to hold the numbers for each category and 1 for all numbers for all categorie...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Modification of SCD Stage to allow custom date specification

SCD stage inserts new rows (type 2) with the effective date derived from runtime. This is sufficient for updated rows. We would like to specify a different date for initial records.
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Security group settings impacting controller web

Menu security group has a significant impact on enabling "SUBMIT" TAB in controller web. No knowledge base report detail which menu items should be given READ access to get the SUBMIT Tab enabled in Web.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration