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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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Speed option for table repack

Table repack is a powerful feature but can generate a lot of logical logs. When repacking a large table, which may take many hours, the number of logs created can easily overwhelm the log backup processes and/or cause replication lag. Potential co...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support session parameters as a data security filter on data sources

Our CAP passes row-level security of a user's session to the Cognos application as session parameters. These parameters contain the full string of the where clause as dynamic SQL. While FM Data Security supports this technique, it would be benefic...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support log switch under SET WRITE SUSPEND EXCLUDE LOGS

Today Db2 cannot switch to a log file while write suspend. Therefore a archive log gets performed at beginning of write suspend. Then the write suspend can only last and the database can only work until 1 log file gets full. The time a database is...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Real global CGTT (not SESSION local)

SAP BW needs to materialize data into persistent (regular) tables to be able to access it from multiple session (connections). CGTT and DGTT in Db2 cannot be accessed from multiple sessions/connections. Therefore those temp tables that don't requi...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Provide user the ability to suppress generation of DISCARDDN, PUNCHDDN, UNLDDN for reorg TS

These are not needed in most reorgs, tool should allow the user to determine if these should be generated.
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

PA for excel Cells background colors

Cells background colors can be very confusing in PA for Excel . The styles are editable, but there has been no changes to the default. The point is it should be a default style for all users without any modifications
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow multiple cache states for virtual dynamic cubes

Current design allows two cache states per dynamic cube, ie. to allow reports to be successfully executed, during a member cache refresh. With virtual cube this exposes a errornous situation, when the member cache of both base cubes are refreshed ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report retains report options from session to session

Report options - Automatic group and summary behavior for lists remaining off, but the Delete unreferenced query objects and Enable guided report layout get turned back on after closing session. Visual Aids - Show Hidden Objects turns off after ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New option for 'Object Field Definition', specifically 'Display Type'

Add new 'Display Type' option. It will be a text field, but will auto populate the ‘Date' and ‘User' info as prefix to text being entered. Example ‘1/14/15: Steve Robinson –‘.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Not under consideration

Warning if two or more users concurrently open an item for editing

Currently the user only finds out after having spent some time changing content and when trying to save.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Not under consideration