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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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Alter (global) VARIABLE command

It is not possible to ALTER a global variable, it is necessary to do DROP + re-CREATE it. And previously we must DROP all the objects that depends on it: PROCEDURE, FUNCTION, TRIGGER, VIEWS ..., and the packages are marked as invalid. After havin...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Containerize SPSS Concurrent License Manager

The SPSS Concurrent License Manager is a simple, lightweight sentinel perfect for containerization. A containerized version would be easier to sustain and upgrade via CI/CD to cloud infrastructure, while also reducing total cost of ownership to cu...
12 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Include default font with slashed zero

We had a customer ask us to add a custom font because all of the included options did not offer a slashed zero. I was able to add the custom font, but we were surprised that of all the Cognos included options, none of them included a font that off...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add filter criteria to Excel ouput from WSA/11 as available in Query Studio today

Excel output from Query Studio includes the filter criteria added to the query. Would like similar capability in Workspace Advanced/11.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need more logging information in Cognos Administration Tool

In the "Past Activities" (IBM Cognos Administration‬ > Status > Past Activities),we can see the status of past scheduled reports.The customer also want to see the following information in this function.-Past all executed reports.(Not only ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

No need to restart the OPTIM service for the server settings changes to take effect

Currently and according to IBM documentation " Note: If you make changes to the configuration of a Server while it is running, click Apply , then stop and start the Server to effect the changes." As we're having more customers using TDM we are try...
12 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Audit pkg and CM Tool

When auditing, it would be ne nice to create a report that contains the following data set information: date refreshed, size, number of rows, number of columns, and time to refresh. It would help us to troubleshoot any data set refresh errors and ...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Prompts for all db2 utility cancellations

I have faced this issue at the beginning of my career. When we ran into some issue with utility hung or ran some utility accidentally don’t know when it will be finished and when can we kill that process. If we give a prompt with some information ...
12 months ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 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 ...
almost 2 years 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...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration