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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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custom Story templates

Currently, we must copy/paste a pre-built Story each time a user wants to develop a Story using the company's standard presentation template. A customized, globally accessible Story template as well as custom slide templates (e.g.: title page, con...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Wrong result from reading Business Temporal Tables with CURRENT TEMPORAL BUSINESS_TIME set to a non-NULL value

When reading Business Temporal Tables we set a value for the special register CURRENT TEMPORAL BUSINESS_TIME in order to get the appropriate result. If it is NULL all rows are read. If it is not NULL only rows for the specified timestamp should be...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Solution for Awkward-Looking Queries in Views

When we create a view using a sensible-looking query, the database converts it into a version that has lots of extra parentheses and odd-looking table names. Below is an example of one of these converted queries. This is a relatively simple exampl...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Multithreaded Refresh for iSeries

Currently when a refresh occurs in iSeries to DS_FF or any other DB it uses the native method to do the refresh with single threaded - This can be improved by using the JDBC method where they should be able to use multithreaded. In the iSeries Cur...
almost 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 6 Not under consideration

Enhance Auditing capabilities to include changes in access permissions

The current Audit logging does not include changes to access permissions on Cognos objects. We would like changes to access permission on Cognos objects to be included in the Audit logging. The information should include who (what user) changed wh...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

optimiser to consider workfile size to determine to use a sort operation

Hi, were coping with a -904 00C90084 or 00C90085 DSNDB07 during a simple left outer join. Apparently the optimiser is not smart enough to determine wether or not to use a sort operation because his lack of knowledge about the sort work file alloca...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Automation of 'Update File' functionality

It would be great if you could create a job that auto updates a file I have in Cognos 11.0.5
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Case TS000932532 - Load should be able to bypass a GENERATED-ALWAYS-from-variable column

ProblemA load on a table containing a certain type of GENERATED ALWAYS column fails with the very odd message "Unexpected load gencol section".Research pointed out that LOAD cannot handle in any way a GENERATED ALWAYS column getting its informatio...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

SetUseActiveSandboxProperty should persist for Process and any child processes

Just like the way Temporary views and subsets now works where the objects persist until the end of the process chain/transaction, setting SetUseActiveSandboxProperty(1) in the parent should keep this enabled through all child processes. When runni...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Choosing NPS version during provisioning

It would be helpful to provide flexibility to our customers to chose NPS version while we provision the system. Cloud offering could potentially be used as dev / test environment and would benefit from being at the same level as production (which ...
about 4 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration