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


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Allow REORG INPLACE and modify REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS on ITC tables

Beginning Db2 v10.5, REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS on ITC tables also implicitly performs sparse extent consolidation before freeing empty extents ( https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/10.5?topic=enhancements-reorganization-make-table-maintenance-easier ). Ho...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

lsf.conf documentation should report which daemon(s) need restart

Every time an lsf.conf entry is recommended by Support, I have to turn around and ask which daemon (or daemons) need a restart, which causes delay. The developers already know what daemons are affected by the changes, please document which ones ne...
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 2

Convert xlsx files to csv as an option to Allow file upload

In PAW, the recent option to Allow file upload on a button would require users to upload their files in .csv format, meaning they have to convert their .xlsx or .xlsm files locally and then drag and drop the files in the file upload screen. Altern...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Save HTML report to file system in HTML format and not MHT format

An HTML report is displayed optimally for the computer screen. Therefore you want to store the HTML report in the file system and make it available to your employees. This report will be saved as MHT file. In the company, Internet Explorer is no ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Enhance search features on grid views

It is our understanding that in grid views (incl. filtered lists), only "name" and "description" fields can be searched on. We would like the ability to search on other fields displayed in the grid view.
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Allow customizing the alert email message (summary + description)

We send CP4D alerts by email and we would like to do a filtering by severity and component, maybe more variables. This allows us to prioritize our incident management and would be of great value.
about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

RID problem instrumentation improvement

The IFI 2 & 3 fields QISTRLLM and QISTRPLM and the RID fields in the 316 and 401 are all basically “useless” these days to actually detect a RID related limit problem. I know that the QXRFMIAP is available in the IFI 2 & 3 but it is needed...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Support Silent Switch Installations for DVM Studio, JDBC Drivers and ODBC Drivers

At our site users do not have the option to download and install software on their work computers unless that software has been approved and made available from an internal central software download site. Users do not have administrative rights an...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Improvement of Table visualization in Cognos Dashboard

I would like to be able to change the column size of the columns in table in Cognos Dashboard. Just add the same resize handle as we have in a crosstab
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Customize Field Displayed in My Tasks

Ability to customize to allow add/removing of fields on the My Tasks list/grid will help prioritize & manage tasks. Currently, the view is missing fields that would help users quickly identify what is needed to be known about the task without ...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review