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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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Updated field (black) asterisk is causing confusion with mandatory field (red asterisk)

Users are familiar with red asterisk = mandatory field. When they see the new black asterisk, they are confusing it with the red mandatory asterisk. Consider whether there is another symbol that could be used that does not cause this confusion
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Delivered

Specify a Check Constraint Through Alter Panels

There is currently no option to be able to specify a list of accepted values for a column on a table through the Alter panels.
over 4 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 3 Delivered

Export data from Dashboard Visualization data area

Being able to see the data used to generate a visualization in the Visualization Data area is nice. However, when debugging a visualization it would be nice to export that data to Excel to examine the data more easily.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Add ability to configure the set that is initially displayed on the left pane of PAx set editor

Would like the ability to chose which set is displayed when launching the set editor. This configuration should be able to be set for each dimension, and should persist when the set editor is launch from any environment (Cube views, Explorations, ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Provide better instrumentation for contention between DDL and statement cache

When attempting to execute DDL, it is very difficult to determine what the in-use is, and what in the cache is holding the resource. There needs to be better instrumentation to determine what is blocking successful DDL.
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Deadlock need to avoid for ALTER TABLE JOB

ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN job should be able to break-in RTS process. Currently, the deadlock may happen between ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN job and CORRELATION-ID=014.RTSTST00. We open CASE TS011962039 for the deadlock. From user point of view, the f...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Delivered

Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for Data Studio

Trying to implement Vanguard tokenless two factor authentication on IBM mainframe. When the userid and password are entered; Vanguard sends a RACF passticket via email or text message. The 8 byte passticket is entered in the 'New Password' field t...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Setting permissions in Cognos Analytics with matrix like in Cognos 10

When setting permissions in Cognos Anlytics (e.g. on folders), the interface is not very userfriendly:- permissions can't be set for more than one group, if no standard permission (i.e. read, write) is used- permissions are not displayed at a glan...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Ability to add String values in color field on RAVE2 Maps issue in Cognos Analytics 11.0.10 (TS001153285)

In Cognos Analytics 11.0.10 Report Studio RAVE 2 Maps , we have a requirement to locate geographical data on a map and to identify them by different size and categories. We understand that Cognos 11 (RAVE Tiled Map) has the capability to support t...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Missing prompt-functions in report using a data module

As stated in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.1.0?topic=dmfm-framework-manager-features-not-supported-by-data-modules, some reporting functions are not supported with a data module as source for a report. The "Select & search pr...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 3 Delivered