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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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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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Allow more granular control over what SQL will result in Statistics Profiles updates

Unnecessary statistics can increase RUNSTATS collection elapsed and CPU time, sometimes exponentially, and impact BIND/PREPARE performance because the optimizer must read in all available statistics to determine what is and is not useful for each ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Ability to sync tables to HDR & RSS secondaries when converting from RAW to STANDARD mode.

It is significantly faster to load a table in TYPE(RAW) mode than TYPE(STANDARD) mode. However, this option is not practical for sites using HDR and/or RSS secondary servers for replication as RAW mode tables do not replicate forcing the site to b...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Support NamedRange when using TM1Web URL API

Referring to this feature: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=api-selecting-dimension-title-elements-websheet-objects Currently on TM1Web (aka Planning Analytics Spreadsheet Service), the URL API supports Title_S#-R#-C#=ele...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Expand existing Theme Elements

Currently Themes only allow to modify the UI with some basic parameters - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ag_manage.doc/c_ag_manage_themes.html In addition you can create extensions to apply further ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Index tables in FAP database for better performance of an IP

We tested the time taken for an IP in the PRD environment. In SQL we saw an extreme cost in memory for select queries that the process does in table nrtr_companyrelation We noticed, that this table is not indexed. The whole IP took 2,5h, of which ...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Under review

Support SCOPE PENDING on REORG INDEX

With Db2 13 FL506 LOAD partition clearing and NOKEYDELETE, NPIs are left in a pending state that needs to be resolved by a REQRG INDEX. Users will have to find there NPI indexes and submit the REORGs for them. With SCOPE PENDING support in REORG I...
3 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

"Writeback mode" in Excel Ribbon

Give more feedback (or make it non-persistent) if writeback mode in PAfE is set to value mode: If a user accidentally switches this, all TM1 sheets won’t write anything back to the cubes, and this setting is persistent. Unfortunately there is no m...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enable Workspace user preferences in PAfE

Make available members deselection persistent: Many users prefer to have available members being turned off in the PAfE subset editor. But each time the editor is being opened, the deselection has to be made again. If PAfE (same as in PAW) could r...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support and Certify Oracle SE on RDS for MDM SE

To certify the usage of Oracle Standard Edition on AWS RDS for MDM SE. Currently only MDM EE RDS is certified for usage with MDM
3 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Setting up the “Run in the Background” as default option at user level

Most of our customers are using “Run in the Background” option for long running reports. They will be okay to use this option however the user has to explicitly set this option every time they run the report which they want to avoid, and it would ...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted