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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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Add a userfriendly cube "LOCK" function (like in Perspectices)

In Perspectives it was possible to right click on the cube => Security, and set the cube to "Lock". Causing a CAMID entry in the Cube property cube (to protect the cube for all possible inputs including Admin). This is missing.
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Enhanced Product Master for Streamlined Data Management

I propose developing an improved Product Master solution that will revolutionize data management practices within our organization . As businesses grow and diversify, managing product data across various systems and platforms becomes increasingly ...
6 months ago in Product Master 0 Functionality already exists

Granularity for backup

Ideal example of it is 'staging database', which may not be worth backing up. Backing up unnecessary databases is a toll on resources (Network bandwidth, CPU, storage). Having choice of which databases user can backup and at what time may help our...
about 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Functionality already exists

Chores Local & GMT

In TM1 Architect, when editing a chore, it's possible to select to either run the Chore Time in Local Server Time or UTC Time. Can the same toggle button be added to Workspace in order to replace Architect fully.
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Quick Report - Refresh zero-suppressed report to get new data rows shown up

After a Quick Report is created, we'd like the capability of hitting refresh and new data rows shown up (kind of like Dynamic Report) without needing to go to "expand down" on a consolidated element as, at this point, zero-suppression is no longer...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Clone a database

I routinely need to clone a Production database (not the whole instance) onto another instance on another machine. Formerly, I used onunload to do this, and worked like a charm. However, onunload does not work with blobs, and after we incorporated...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Functionality already exists

Double-Clicking on cube should open the default view, not the first private view

We set default views in our cubes for a reason, as they are the view we want to see the majority of the times when we open the cube. The issue with Planning Analytics for Excel is that double clicking the cube is opening the first private view sav...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Make multiple DDL changes transactional

Why is it useful? When complex changes are made in DDL and one of the changes fails, it can get pretty hard to revert the issue. Who would benefit from it? Implementing this idea would tremendously help database administrators. How should it work?...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Functionality already exists

Display of Cognos Content from navigation folder as 10.2.2 by type of content

we found a different behavior when you navigate on team content folders. On Cognos BI 10.2.2, the content (inside folders) is order by type and then by name or date, it is easy to see the difference between reports, subfolders, view, dashboard. On...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Request to add more stages in DFD Palette

We'd like to request for additional stages, "DRS connector" and "Checksum" stages in the web-based DFD (Data Flow Designer). Currently our ETLs are using those stages and not available in the DFD interfaces. It's not urgent but in near future if w...
almost 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists