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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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No database name in "Warning: update statistics low using sampling may generate inaccurate index statistics for index"

There is not enough information in the following message that can be found in online.log: 07/19/18 02:25:27 Warning: update statistics low using sampling may generate inaccurate index statistics for index informix.ix_transacaoguia_goperadora due t...
about 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Increase the default height of the description field to 10-15 lines

The description field is an attribute from reports, folders, ... which is displayed in the properties of the object in the Cognos portal. It has a relatively small height and only 2.5 lines can be shown at once. The field height cannot be increase...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Functionality already exists

Traffic light Status Icon in circle shape

Could you please help us to get the Traffic light status icons only as circle shape for all color green, red, yellow . Currently we have traffic light status as Green icon in Circle shape, Red icon as square shape, Yellow icon as diamond shape. Pl...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

stop use of LONG RAW data type in Oracle content store

For many years now Oracle has been recommending that LOB data types should be used instead of LONG. LONG RAW is used NC_JOBQUEUE.JOB. Use of LONG RAW complicates database administration, for example relocation and space management. http://docs.ora...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SQLCODE doesn't provide useful information when performing a SELECT on a DB2 table with Row Access Control implemented

We are planning to use ' Row access control' in DB2 as a solution to share some tables, but giving end-users/processes access only to the data they are allowed to see. We have found it really easy to implement (with the built-in function VERIFY_GR...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

BigSql Strengthening on node failure

BigSql is built upon db2 database but it thus miss a major architecture philosophy of Hadoop:" handle failure "If you launch a query and one of the designated worker node fails (hardware failure) then the request fails instead of being restarted o...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BigSQL 0 Not under consideration

Use a Ctrl-Click to open PAW Items in a new tab?

Is it possible to modify PAW to open the selected item in a new browser tab when the control key (on windows) is held down when the hyperlink is clicked – just like all other hyperlinks? For example, it would be great to be able to click on “Admin...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Azure SQL Server as a database option for Cognos Command Center

Currently Cognos Command Center only allows connection to SQL Server through either integrated or SQL authentication. With growing popularity of the Microsoft Azure SQL Server it will be extremely useful if such connection option can be added with...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos to Infosphere Data Lineage - Pre-set our own default filter, flow relationships btw assets, and hide properties window

Our organization uses Cognos Reports and Infosphere for ETL and lineage. Our over 2000 business users need to know where their data is coming from, they don't care about the details of how it got there, jobs, views etc.. They only care to know the...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global Hold for Cubes

A global hold cube would be very useful since currently holds are on a per user basis meaning any processes which involve spreading where holding is necessary (e.g. holding Actual periods) cannot be scheduled
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration