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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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Add functionality to speed up reading pages into buffers

Add functionality to speed up reading pages into buffers This RFE is logged because a performance problem arise with IBM Cognos software with Informix. The business complaints that when the first runner of a report runs in 20minutes and subsequent...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Need automatic search of synonyms when adding terms to library

When adding new terms to a library, either by importing from a text file or manual typing the term, the tool needs to check the existing synonyms and notify the user if any added terms are already synonyms for another target term. This is necessar...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Ability to delete/disable security intelligence feature(s), without sacrificing quality of user experience

There should be a way to disable or delete, without sacrificing the quality of the user experience, the security intelligence feature(s) feature that obviously would not be needed in certain business functions, like Human Resources, to attempt to ...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Setting to set color transparency

It would be nice to have a setting that compute the color transparency automatically instead of having to manually computing it then entering the RGB values specific to the transparency. It could induce error and not following company standards.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

View Tabular Data

Query Explorer -> Right click queryPlease reverse the order of 'Rename Query' and 'View Tabular Data' Also, if don't chose an option and move the cursor to another query then right click again. Only 'Rename Query' and 'View Tabular Data' pops u...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

support of the new data type NUMERIC from Teradata

Creating a nickname to a teradata server ends with error: SQL3324N Column "xxxx" has a type of "N " which is not recognized. Target column type NUMERIC is not recognized
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

Group currency values in intercompany matching report for P&L accounts

Please can IC report transactions from the previous period be loaded with the result that D-coded accounts are translated using the D-rate on the period value and then added to the translated previous YTD value when running the intercompany matchi...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Direct entry of "Contribution Version" when layouting reports

When a report in Cognos Controller is being created there is the possibilty to insert the "Contribution Version" either in the row or the column definition. The entry of the "Contribution Version" has to be done via a dropdown menu. There is no di...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Optimization profile mimic

add a new option to the explain tool to create an xml document containing the optimization guidelines matching the access path
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

bsub should use pipes for standard file descriptors

Details are in the referenced PMR, but the summary is that since bsub uses sockets instead of files for STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR certain types of submissions that access /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout, and /dev/stderr will fail to execute properly when ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration