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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.

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


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User should be able to add customized tiles on the welcome page

CFIA has been using Cognos since 2008 and the users start liking Congos 11.1.x especially Cognos 11.1.4. The welcome page is modern and seems easily to be able to customized. But in fact the users won't be able to add the tiles that they need. If ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

IPL Index Build performance

On large Index Builds with LOG_INDEX_BUILDS enabled the performance of the IPL thread degrades drmatically if the whole index cannot be held in BUFFER CACHE. Once a required page is swapped out of BUFFER Cache then the IPL thread reads the require...
almost 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Improve handling of tables with structure changes in Log Analyzer Tool

The current handling of tables that have had structure changes (alters, drop/recreate) is extremely cumbersome and difficult to pro-actively manage, requiring TVFILE entries for altered tables and duplicate structures for tables that have been dro...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Log Analysis Tool for z/OS 1 Delivered

Avoid synchronous preformat in SQL INSERT transactions

[Background]The customer's system providing banking services abroad is exposed to regulatory risk by the local banking regulator.The customer is forced to complete a specific transaction within a second basically.This specific SQL INSERT transacti...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Simplify fixes and enhancements to be installed and onfigured as a patch or fix pack, not as the entire version

In the last two upgrades it has been very time consuming and frustrating to apply the product and then test and then if issue install and configure the next in all instances being a distributed env. We have a total of 45 most of them in the webser...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Support SQL Server 2017

Please provide support for connecting to SQL Server 2017 databases.
about 6 years ago in SPSS Statistics 2 Delivered

Enable Analysis Studio in Cogno Analytics on the Cloud

We have a customer migrating to Cloud via the Bridge to Cloud program. They are currently leveraging a decent number of PowerCubes, on premises, utilizing Analysis Studio. Currently Cognos Analytics on Cloud doesn't enable Analysis Studio, relegat...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Query for documents containing (or not containing) field

When ingesting documents with different schemas, it's difficult to be able to split the collection based on the fields which one schema contains (or is missing). Currently, there is no way to query for fields with an empty string, nor is it possib...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Delivered

Listening to jobstates

We submit our jobs to LSF with the LSF API (C++, lsbatch.h). Our software has to give a feedback to the users about the current state of the jobs. For this query we call lsb_readjobinfo for each active job in our list. It can take a long time to c...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 0 Delivered

Implement the access to Cloudant in QMF

Implement the access to Cloudant in QMF that was previously available in DataQuant. All Cloudant customers will benefit from this whether they have the z/OS or multiplatform version of QMF.
about 3 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Delivered