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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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MSG_DATE format should follow $DBDATE if defined

Several customers would like the format of the date written to online.log when we have the MSG_DATE parameter defined/activated to follow the format of DBDATE.Currently it seems to follow the American standard (MONTH / DAY / YEAR2).
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Folder and Report Permissions interface is difficult to use

Cognos 11 Folder/Report permissions interface is very hard to use. Cognos 10.2.2 Folder/Report permissions interface is much better than Cognos 11. We can see all the user groups at one time when viewing permissions tab. It's also very easy and ef...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change color of Summary label

When I create a summary visualisation in a dashboard (v 11.2.4), there is no way to change the color, font and style of the label (you can only hide it and change the text alignment). One should be able to style the label the same way as the title.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Lists and crosstabs are imported as image objects in PowerPoint

When importing report contents into PowerPoint, lists / cross tables should also be importable as Images.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Applications and Plans - Hover Text Configuration

Allow hover text to be customizable for objects within PAW. For example, If I hover my curser over an action button I want to specify that a hover text box shows up and describes what the button is going to do. This should be configurable in the a...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

ADB25 - LISTDEF and TEMPLATE tables should be part of the system and not be allow to have DBA decide on the names

Currently DBA can create tables for LISTDEF and TEMPLATES. This can cause each DBA to have a copy of their own table, backup issues since they are created in the temp DB. These tables should be created within DBADMIN. The feature to create them ad...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

For Modify Utility, enhance to allow selecting SYSCOPY rows by TYPE (full, incremental) and DSN pattern (DBP.DB2.ICWKY*), Modify should also delete rows where there are no media.

Need to delete rows for Incremental ICs which are kept 14 days while the Fulls are 30 days. Can't do that using the current product.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

New Consolidation Calculation Rules Functions - ConsolidatedSum

2 new consolidation functions ConsolidatedSum(flag-value, cube-name, element_1, element_2,… ); ConsolidatedSum calculates the sum value in a consolidation and returns a single value. I know that this is the same as not having a rule in place, bu...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Documentation for admin features

When modifying the features in the admin panel for different userids/groups, there is no way to understand what the effects are on all the areas of the different features. There are more than 1100 of them.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

The number of input variables that Auto-AI can consider is limited.

Currently, Auto-Ai does not support Spark run-time at the back end, resulting in slowness while Model development using Auto-AI The number of input variables that Auto-AI can consider is also limited. Customer has a model with almost 324 input var...
almost 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Not under consideration