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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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Re-add dialog box help as per Cognos 10

In Cognos 10, all dialog boxes had a help link in the top right corner but this is no longer the case in Cognos 11.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

UTL_ENCODE.BASE64_ENCODE and BASE64_DECODE support

Request for official support of UTL_ENCODE module and.BASE64_ENCODE procedure, that is not documented in Infocenter 10.5 but is available in DB2 LUW. Request for creation and support of UTL_ENCODE.BASE64_DECODE procedure.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Proper messaging is needed for refresh or mirror not working

When a new file is created and Augmented for replication, and a refresh or mirroring is attempted , it does not work and below message is obtained.072-053,CRTSCVS,CRTSCVS,SYS00021,,,FBSIT.DBA.V2D.CHAR 817 IEC161I FBSIT.DBA.V2D.CHARI.DATA,SYS1.VSMS...
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Microseconds not getting populated for target DB2 timestamp column

"CDC built-in functions cannot retain microseconds for TIMESTAMP target data type. I have a 2 vsam fields, vsam CHAR(10) field AS 2018/08/13 (yyyy/mm/dd) and vsam CHAR(15) FIELD AS 16:19:45.094690 (hh.mm.ss.xxxxxx). I am trying to map combing both...
about 6 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

INTERACTIVE SEND BY EMAIL - If the size > defined smtp limit -> then send only the URL/LIN

launching interactively a reportselect prompt if any then choose "select a delivery option"If send by email is selected then there is no option to select only the URL not the attached report the issue is that for report whose size s above the thre...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Use Watson to filter spam from Website

Seriously, its embarassing to have this idea site with xanax spam on it.
about 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Visa Technical Security Requirements Findings - Need Fix ASAP

There are Technical Security Requirements at Visa. We need to implement the following rules within the DB2 database to fix the findings. Please involve the DB2 DBA team from your side and confirm if IBM openpages application is certified to run af...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 5 Not under consideration

PAW - Export User List - to include status

To include "status" and "subscription" in PAW user list
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Ability to show Attribute instead of Element Name on Grid

I have a grid and selector. In the selector the user picks a Group. On the Rows of the Grid it shows the total for the selected Group and the Core and Partner consolidations below that Group. However, this means that on the rows, it has to show at...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration