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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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There is no method to quickly get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image

It is not possible to get the "minimum recovery time" of a backup image without first restoring the image or by using 'db2ckbkp -l' but it is also too long as it has to read the entire backup image (this can be long if the image is stored on TSM /...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Dashboard Visualizations (Stackbar, Stackcolumn etc) with Conditional Color Formatting

Conditional formatting based on the data value to show different colored bars for different value ranges is not available for most of the Visualizations. Conditional formatting is currently only available on three Dashboard visualization types; KP...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Support for Cognos Portlets

Cognos 11 no longer support Portlets that we were able to create in Cognos 10 Portal pages.Most commonly used are the Dashboard "multipage" portlet, the Cognos content "IBM Cognos Navigator" portlet and a variety of the "IBM Cognos Utility" portle...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Make Dashboards not sensitive on data module ID changes

We use Cognos as a product component to be deployed to clients. When we develop data modules to clients, clients can create their own interactive dashboards themselves. We have more than one development servers to develop data modules. When we fin...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Align font size of KPI & summary visualizations on a dashboard tab

We'Id like to have the font size of KPI and summary visualizations aligned, at least on a tab. Typically on dashboards KPI/Summary visualizations are aligned adjacent on a dashboard tab, with identical visualization box sizes. To make things look ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

MDX able to recognise Custom Consolidation

Custom Consolidation (aka Rollup, User-Defined Consolidation) is a relatively common practice for business analyst to do ad hoc analysis, detail of how to create custom consolidation can refer to this documentation: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/pla...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

IFCID 365 - Set variable QLSTNTLS to -1 for unknown.

TLS/SSL Used Number of connections from the remote site that were configured with SSL and AT/TLS support. This value is meaningful only at the server. (Field name: QLSTNTLS). We are reporting on this field and are seeing some values of 0 for conne...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow list IP addressed that can access Planning Analytics SaaS

I would like to have the possibility to whitelist IPs that are allowed to use PA AWS rest api. This would be needed so that nobody can use the rest api from anywhere if they have apikey. I am having problems with the customers as they expect the p...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow writing from the platform through a Hive connector

As we develop models on the cloud pak platform, we re implementing the following flow: - reading data tables on our on-premise datalake from a hive connector - training a ML model from a notebook environment - writing the output of models back to ...
about 2 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

Additional Reminders - Leading to the work

It would be helpful if IBM can send 1-2 additional reminders to the client with relation to Scheduled Maintenance Notification.
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on Cloud 0 Submitted