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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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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the task "Table Shrink" allow to specify unit of work or duration

I used "table shrink" on large table, sometime it caused the long transaction on the other application processes due to the logical logs usage. In some cases, the size of table is large so the "table shrink" take too long and impact system on peak...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Lock access plan for a query. Prevent the optimizer from changing a plan, once a "good" plan has been determined.

We see cases where a large query runs fine, and something changes the stats, which causes the optimizer to choose a really bad plan. We would like to be able to lock an individual query, and tell the optimizer: "Just use this plan".
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Vertical Scroll Bar color in List Visualization

In Dashboarding the List Visualization displays a vertical scroll bar. When using a dark color background for the List Visualization the scroll bar remains white. This makes the Visualization visually unappealing. Request that the scroll bar color...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PAW View Export To Excel - Dimension Headers Not Applied Correctly

When exporting to excel from a PAW view, if there are multiple dimensions stacked in the columns, you do not get see the dimension name next to the dimension in the column stacked due to the way the export occurs... In prior versions no dimension ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Auto adjust of rows and columns width on enable word wrap

most occasions business wants to review the balances of P&L and want to explain the variances. this becomes extremely difficult in the pre- PAW 79 version as long comments are difficult to view. as PAW 79 has introduced word wrap it is expecte...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support to access Sharepoint Online (365) via the Controller on cloud environment

We would like the ability to access our SharePoint (online 365) sites via the controller cloud environment. Currently we have access to our individual Onedrive for business drives but for collaborative teams, we need to also access shared / common...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to localize drilled through view

We crated a PAW book that can drill through to another view getting a records from ODBC DB using MDX like: "select aaa, bbb from table". On that view, we'd like to use localize caption so that caption can be changed depending on the language confi...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Full Report List in Audit Database

There should be a section added to the audit database that holds information on all reports that reside in the Cognos Analytics instance. This information is already present when looking at the permissions of a report, but there is not a complete ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SSAS 2017 Support

When will Microsoft SSAS 2017 be a supported data source?
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom Functions (Methods) which return values into Turbo Integrator process

Creating custom functions would reduce amount of code required. Currently, TI process is a flat script, which sometime requires overwhelming coding where Object style coding could be utilized much better. Functions (methods) would be design to ret...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration