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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.

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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Indication of the reason for conversion by drop/create

In our environment, we try to execute all changes to DB2 tables online via Alter commands if possible. However, there are a lot of reasons why in some cases the Alter is not possible and as a consequence Admintool correctly chooses the conversion ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 4 Planned for future release

Informix Developer Edition MAC OS port for Apple Chipset M1/2

The current and future Informix Development Edition and the Advanced Development Edition should be available under Mac OS apple cpu. The MacBook's are very popular among pupils, students, and IT consultants. Run Informix Server at actual MacBook's...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Reports not refreshed when a package is updated

After a package has been updated, all associated reports no longer use parameter caching to improve performance. In order to re-enable parameter caching, reports must be resaved manually, otherwise this may result in RSV-PMG-0003 errors. We woul...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Ability to use Distribution Lists in CA

Need the ability to use Distribution Lists in Schedules like in every other version of Cognos BI
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Empty links in CPLEX Optimization Studio Documentation

There are many 'empty' links/pages in the CPLEX Optimization Studio Documentation when I search for topics. I limit the scope to CPLEX and IDE, but still get many, many blank results. I spend a great deal of time clicking through blank pages to fi...

Add ability to secure tabs in a dashboard based on different security groups

We have different groups who likes to see similar dashboards but currently we have to create separate dashboards for each group due to data security issue and we would very much like to have a functionality available where we can secure a tab in t...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Make primary search configurable

Currently a User will only receive 50 search results in the primary Cognos Analytics Search. Access currently works fine so the results are limited to what the users see. The problem is that if the users could potentially see 50+ results only 50 w...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

connect queries from multiple packages in a report

When you have multiple packages in one report, be able to connect them in the report. Now only possible by combining them in a data module: when you use two packages in one report, it is not possible to combine dataitems from one package with a da...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

LOAD - Add ability to bypass REPORT phase when duplicates are present

Processing a TS with a lot of duplicates. We never look at the data from the REPORT phase. Also it takes a very long time to produce. Would like the ability to have a keyword to bypass this
12 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Applications and Plans: Delegation when people are out of office

There is the need for task delegation when people are on leave in order for the task to be completed and submitted, without the substitute individual having to submit / complete the task at any other point in time except when the 1st in line is on...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review