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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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Recover database from "Backup in progress" hang state without restarting the database

When a full online backup is running and an Abinitio (DAIP) job runs and create new staging tables (or drop them), it caused an impact to the database that we are not able to recover from. Most of the tables (if not all) will be in a “Backup in pr...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enable Scrolling to view data on TM1Web/PASS Cube Viewer

Currently Cube Viewer when viewing a larger data size, it has the arrow for users to navigate to next page. However, when comparing using TM1 Perspective, user can scroll and view the full dataset by just scrolling instead of continuosly clicking ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Surrogate Key limit reached but job didn't abort

In the job , we are using one column with data type as 16-bit integer(SMALLINT) and the data range has exceeded in this month when we started from 31161 + 3883 and job has created same key for multiple records instead of failing and its ran succes...
over 4 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Enable proxy user for database connection

In my company, SPSS Modeler is connected to an Oracle database. Users can access to the database (through Modeler client application) by two means: With their basic account using their user (e.g. "toto") and password, which restricts their action ...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler Server 0 Not under consideration

search within a custom subset in subset editor

Cannot search within a custom subset in subset editor. Search features do not seem to work even though the element that is being searched for exist
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Enhanced Finish button

Currently in a report with independent prompts ‘Finish’ refreshes the page only if the prompt values are changed on the report. If the prompt values remain the same from the previous execution the previous page is displayed. Although prompt values...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report book extraction in excel workbook instead of separate excel files

When running a report book in cognos controller, it would be helpful to have the possibility to generate multiple excel reports in a single report book in 1 excel workbook instead of all single excel files.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Query Banding retrieving single query name from a cognos report. Report has multiple queries.

Query Banding results are retrieving a single query name even though cognos report has multiple queries in it. Created a P{MR and here is the response from IBM:IBM DEV team confirmed that whenever multiple queries get fired there is a chance we wi...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced mathematical functions for larger data types

Some Mathematical functions accept dfloat as input but in output are restricted to int32. These functions need to be expanded to be able to return int64 values
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

On main page of WEBGUI, wrong default behavior when sorting by column in symphony apps or ego servcies

If one wants to sort by running tasks by clicking on Task[Running] button, the default result from this sorting is "ascending"instead of ascending. Why would user wants to see 0 running task applications first... The same issue happens in ego serv...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Future Version 1 Not under consideration