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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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Oracle NEXTVAL function to a character column with Optim's propagation function

Recovery of a key by Oracle number distributor to a 'VARCHAR' column. The customer (COVEA, an ISP contract worth 120 million euros) would like to be able to use the NEXTVAL function to apply it directly to a column defined as a VARCHAR in a primar...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 5 Not under consideration

Audit Trail for Workflow Action Comment

Currently, change history does not include previous comments made in the "Action Comment" field (workflow comment popup). The popup cannot be used to serve as rejection or approval if the comment (which might provide conditional approval) is not t...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 2 Not under consideration

either a flag to align the zero's of the two axis or a value to align them at

I'll like to synchronize the X axes for the Zero value, see attach file.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard: Conditional Coloring based on a Data value such as products or items

To keep all the parameters and criteria in a database (Dynamic) not static like all other BI products Can't believe all these conditional formatting are still static
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Visualizations (including maps) 0 Not under consideration

Sort visualizations by data not shown on the visualization similar to Report Studio

When using a relational model with a time query subject the the month query item (which contains only the month name) is sorted on the visualizations alphabetically. In Report Studio we are able to specify that the sort is based on our month epoch...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Advanced/relative date filter

Add on a dashboard and report prompt the ability to filter for a date or date range using the following: today, yesterday, this week/month/year, last x days/week/month/year, fiscal filtering. This type of control or functionality is a staple of ma...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Image in an excel report always adding some white space on the right side.

In report when ever image is used extra white space gets added in the cell. The excel cell should span to the size of the image only.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Not under consideration

Mode 1 Users can change their own Password in Pafe

In security Mode 1, Pafe users are unable to change their password. Having such functionality would seem to be a basic feature of any client / server software and does exist in the legacy clients.
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

need to provide a RENAME SCHEMA statement (other database products provide this)

Need RENAME SCHEMA other databases other than DB2 LUW (i.e. MaxDB from SAP) provide a statement RENAME SCHEMA to rename a schema like a RENAME TABLESPACE/TABLE/INDEX. Needed on all supported operating systems.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Index for a subset of rows

Possibility to index only specific rows of one or more columns. This could be implemented with a WHERE clause in the index create statement and would rsult in a tiny index for exactly the rows you are interested in.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration