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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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Workspace | Add option to switch between Hierarchies

Dear IBM Ideas, We kindly request the addition of an option that allows users to conveniently switch between Hierarchies in a workspace workbook without requiring them to enter edit mode. Furthermore, we have encountered an issue when editing a di...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

V8.1 TFUI – Make Inline Guidance fields collapsible

Inline guidance fields can take up quite a lot of space on the screen. Ideally the user should be able collapse this down to avoid the view becoming too cluttered. Perhaps the Administrator can decide whether it should be collapsed by default.
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Not under consideration

DB2_BAR_STATS table view

Add a table view for the bar stats output
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Add back Product Language "Slovak" in Cognos Analytis 11.0.13, 11.1* and above

The Cognos Analytics 11.0.13 and 11.1* no longer provide Slovak product language. This is an issue for user who do need their mother language to use the product when their English language is not strong enough. This might cause lose of customer in...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Expose API for managing enum values programatically

Currently, Tech team manages the Reference Data defined as Enum values. We would like to eliminate this IT dependency and would like to empower the business stake holders to be able to maintain the enum list. We also have downstream systems wantin...
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review

REORG Option to set Return Code for drain failure or deadline

At present we have to manually intervene every time a REORG fails with a DRAIN FAIL or DEADLINE hit, because the job finishes with RC8. However, these scenarios are both common and expected BAU situations - so we would like to handle them automati...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Move tabs between books in PAW

Sometimes I create a new book when developing and will get carried away creating something. Then I will realize it makes sense to be in an other work book. But I was shocked to find out I cannot move a tab from one workbook to an other workbook. I...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

LOAD into accelerator table via ALIAS name

Currently, with IDAA Loader v2.1 it is not possible to LOAD data into target accelerator tables that are referenced via ALIAS names. It would be helpful and a great enhancement, e.g. for migration scenario to future IDAA versions, to reference the...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Advanced query hint to use 'Group By' instead of 'Distinct' in SQL

In some cases, we would need an advanced query hint to use “Group By” instead of “Distinct” in the SQL per report or per query tree. We are aware of the DQM query property “performance.convertGroupByToDistinct” which is set to “true” by default (f...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Generate UUIDs in DB2

Oracle (sorry to compare!) has ability to generate a UID. We are looking for this function in DB2 Zos and LUW. Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) -- In Oracle Oracle sequences are frequently used to provide unique numbers for primary keys where an...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development / Other/Unknown 2 Not under consideration