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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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Change default CA Datasource type from OLEDB to NativeClient for MSSQL connections

Cognos Controller configuration currently creates datasources in Cognos Analytics using the OLEDB driver for MSSQL connections. Controller by itself requires use of SQL Server Native client, so it would make sense to change the database driver tha...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add a database option for force application

Add the following options : force applications all for database dbalex;
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Improve messaging surrounding the +20272 SQL warning in cases of a -904

A DBA was running an ALTER NOT CLUSTER. The ALTER should have converted the tablespace to table-controlled partitioning, but it encountered a -904. I have copied the output to "additional details". In the SPUFI output, after the -904, the ALTER di...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

In Cube Viewer in PA for Excel there is not a short cut or keycombination to navigate into the dimension and action icon bar

In Cube Viewer in PA for Excel there is not a short cut or a key combination to navigate into the dimension and action icon bar. It is only possible to navigate through the tab key in the table. The Cube Viewer in PA for Excel is a PAW component t...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

In PA for Excel in Cube Viewer it is not possible to open the context menue with the short cut shift + F10

In PA for Excel in Cube Viewer it is not possible to open the contect menue with the short cut Shift + F10. The key combination is not working.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Excel Gradient Conditional Formatting not supported if published in PAw

If we publish a PAx sheet to PAw that has gradient conditional formatting it will fail to load the sheet. Returns an error.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add File deletion policy

Add File deletion policy , so that after a certain time (7 years) , the system will auto delete the files.
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Enable all the method types of Rest APIs instead of limiting the usage to PUT.

Currently in Nordea, we are looking for options where our consumers can directly interact with MDM services through rest apis instead of an intermediate service which eventually increase performance and save the effort for managing multiple compon...
almost 3 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

Global support for shortcuts in CA

We would like to have a global support for shortcuts in CA as in other modern BI/Analytics tools to speed up the work in CA interfaces. It would be appreaciated for dev in reporting as well as for users in interfaces on the most commont actions/bu...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Enahnce db2pd -dbptnmem command for clarity

In command db2pd -dbptnmem result Real Memory on the system is not displayed, and Memory Limit is meant to represent Instance Memory. Please enhance the command as follows for clarity: 1 - the Real Memory on the system should also be displayed in ...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration