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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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Allow offline backup to automatically force all Allow offline utilities such as backup, restore, rollforward to auconnections

Modern enterprise applications are often using connection pooling for database access. Connection pools are usually monitored by application servers, and dead connections are reestablished with minimal delays..For offline backup operations, this l...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Enhancement Cognos Analytics REST API

Please enhance the existing operation on Content get/content/{id} with the possibility to add an extra field which is used to store the execution/runtime of a report (object)
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Allow the addition of new components during the upgrade process.

At present, upgrading Cognos Analytics reads the currently installed components from the cmplst.txt file, and only upgrades those components. It is not possible to add any additional or new components (for example, Image Service) during an upgrade...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Implement LIMIT clause in DELETE Statement

Expand DELETE syntax implementing LIMIT clause and maybe also ORDER BY. Delete syntax can be like: DELETE [FROM] tbl_name [WHERE where_condition ] [ORDER BY ...] [LIMIT row_count ] This limit + order by syntax is already implemented in other major...
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Future consideration

Applications and Plans: Add a websheet to a task without requiring a PAW book.

Ability to assign individual websheet as an asset to a task that’s not part of of a Book. Currently only able to assign a websheet to a task as an asset if it is part of a PAW Book. Enhancement required to add websheet that isn’t part of a PAW Book.
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Wrap Text in PAW Cube view,

If I add a cube view to workspace with string text, currently data is being truncated even with relatively short text length, approx. 100 characters or more at font size 12. See the attached document which illustrates the issue
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Burst Report - Dynamic Email Subject

The ability for bursting via email to have a dynamic email subject. Currently able to add HTML report to email body - would be useful to add a subject line in a similar way.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow default Parent Business Entity value be set in registry

In our current solution end users are required to do an extra step of selecting a Parent Business Entity when creating a new (GRC) entry. I understand why the Business entity exists and appreciate the usefullness of this capability. In our case th...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Support additional CKEditor core functions in OpenPages

I have compared CKEditor core functionality vs what is currently enabled in OpenPages v 9.0.0.2 We would like to request the following very useful features be supported by CKEditor in OpenPages. The table support in particular is lacking. It's gre...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Change Isolation Level to UR on Read-Only DBs / Tablespaces / Partitions

Databases, Tablespaces, and Partitions can be started in Db2 in read-only (RO) mode. This allows user transactions to access data in these objects only for read (SELECT). Therefore no modification to this data can be made. However, when accessing ...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration