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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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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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Advanced query hint to use 'Group By' instead of 'Distinct' in SQL

In some cases, we would need an advanced query hint to use “Group By” instead of “Distinct” in the SQL per report or per query tree. We are aware of the DQM query property “performance.convertGroupByToDistinct” which is set to “true” by default (f...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

My Parameters should also work with Dashboards

My parameters is superb functionality that works with reports and many customers would benefit from it. Unfortunately it is not widely used. This is partly because it is not possible to use My Parameters with Dashboards, Stories and Exploration.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dimension dropdowns in Cube Viewer to include sub menu for Sets

Users are often times face with a view that has a pre-configure set assigned to it. They may click on the arrow to see more members but not find the relevant members there. Typically they want to change the set and select a member from that set. C...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

COGNOS URL to customized extensions even if use Perspective=Home&factoryMode=True

How to default the COGNOS URL to customized extensions even if use Perspective=Home&factory Mode=True
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

REORG TABLESPACE REBALANCE option to leave some partitions empty

The current REORG TABLESPACE utility with REBALANCE option will distribute rows evenly accross partitions. Many of my tables have ascending keys, so after a REBALANCE of several partitions (example PART(10:16) ), most new rows will be inserted in...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Db2: Recovery of Mainframe Db2 databases without applying changes.

When the DB2 is performing a recover it uses log and copy files, it may be some sitations where the log contains changes that we dont want to restore. For exemple we may have inserts made by an authorized program and also updates performed by an u...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Defined risk list entry upload detailed audit trail

Currently when a file is uploaded to a defined risk list there is no indication on the audit trail of what individual entries were added or updated to such list.
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Not under consideration

IBM OpenPages Landing Page - User Name & Greeting

There should be a mechanism to enable Greetings on the landing page. Users Expect system to show a message like "Hi! John" John being the username or first name here. Customer also expects their Brand Logo at the homepage landing page. Please do c...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Not under consideration

Parrallel offload (Archive logs)

DB2 offload logs in sequential mode. We offload logs directly to virtual tapes and sometimes when have problem with tapes DB2 holds many full active logs. It'll be great if DB2 can offload for example ten full active logs in parallel.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

PAW - Ability to upload flat file / excel file into workspace for reporting

Ability to create dashboards in PAW using non-TM1 data in the form of flat files/.csv files, without the need of storing the dataset in a TM1 cube.
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration