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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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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.

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


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Please increase the timeout value on the SLDS contention situation.

Customers would like to have larger timeout value on the SLDS contention situation. This is because,- SLDS contention situation could happen in production. - It is not a problem or operation mistake. - In that situation, customer does not like to ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

[Security and Access Control] /etc/init.d/ego status overiding default behavior - not according to standard, breaks monitoring and automation tool chain

The init.d script being rolled out with Symphony 7.1.0 is the same across all compute and management hosts. Running the script in its intended way with the status flag always results in the same message: -bash-4.1$ sudo service ego statusego servi...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 4 Not under consideration

Data format in Datamodules

I am looking for a feature to change the dataformat of the columns in Data modules.For example: I have create a calculation and it's default format is Decimal. I want to change the format to percentage.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Document Report within Report Studio

The ability to add text documentation to a report at different object levels and the ability to display it to the developer.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Assign value to a Parameter from a Report Studio Query

In a Report Studio, have the ability to assign a value to a parameter, where the value is calculated in a query.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Problem with widgets in P.A. workspace

In P.A. workspace when you add a “Set” which is a subset from TM1, you get the option to make this a selection widget on the page:-You can then choose to make this a list or a slider. No matter which one you choose the Alias on the dimension is ne...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need JSON UDFs (JSON_TABLE, etc.) to perform similar to XMLTABLE

Need to performance (elapsed time, cpu time) for JSON UDFs to match or exceed XMLTABLE function.We will be using HTTPGETCLOB to invoke RESTful APIs for Web Services on non-mainframe platforms.Our DB2/Legacy applications will need to invoke these, ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Parallell hierarchies in extended dimensions

Today you can just have one hierarchy when it comes to the 4 different extended dimensions. That is a problem when we compete with competitors. Due to that the storing is on the lowest level couldn´t it be possible to have parallell hierarchies? ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Historical rates in a new consolidation type.

When you define a new Consolidation type it´s always very tricky to get the right opening balances on Etyp 1 transactions. It would be so much easier if Controller could get the closing balance amounts from a selected consolidation type when you ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Reconciliation report when using counterdimension

When you use counterdimensions it´s tricky to use the usual prebuild IC-reconciliation reports.To advance the prebuild reports it would be great to have the ability to select Dim1 instead of a company so that the report would present everything f...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration