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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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Avoiding conflicts for multiple users working at the same time on a DataStage flow

With the web interface, two (or more) users can now work in parallel on the same flow. And the last one saving will overwrite all the work done by the others. It would be good to have a mechanism to prevent multiple people working at the same time...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Restful API call needs to support array data types

Currently the RESTFUL API Db2 service does not support array data types as part of the call statement.
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Updated replacement for Analysis Studio

We need an updated interface to replace Analysis Studio legacy application. As of now, there are no equivalent capabilities that are easy-to-use adhoc query capabilities of Analysis Studio. Our company has relied heavily on this tool and now that ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Altering the default value of a global variable

Global Variables: A global variable can be created with a default value. Each session that uses it will then instantiate a version of that global variable, with the default value and any change in the value is limited in scope to its unit-of-work....
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Wrap Text in PAW Cube view,

If I add a cube view to workspace with string text, currently data is being truncated even with relatively short text length, approx. 100 characters or more at font size 12. See the attached document which illustrates the issue
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Add Column Headers in a PAW View

When you have a 2 dimensional view in PAW, we would like to group the elements displayed in the columns to make the display more readable. The aim is to display this grouped name above the column elements (simulating something similar to stacking ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Subsets should be displayed as hierarchies

Since IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.9 , Planning analytics Subsets are available for Dashboards and Reports. Unfortunately they are displayed and used as sets rather than hierarchies. In order to utilize the complete capabilities of TM1 it would be ne...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

More efficient unique indexes for monotonically increasing keys and constraints

Currently an index on a SERIAL and other monotonically increasing keys only add to the last node in the index causing the node to split into two half filled nodes. Eventually a sufficient number of nodes have so split that the index's search effic...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics Cube designer supports Denodo Datasource

At this moment IBM does not support the Cognos Analytics clients like Framework Manager and Cube Designer in combination with Denodo, We are within a migration from Netezza (End of Life) to Db2/Denodo Denodo supports Cognos (So tells their website...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

search current folder

1. Would like to be able to set a folder to use as the starting point for a search. 2. Would like to be able to start a search from the current location when navigating through folders in content store
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration