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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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Improvements to UPDATE STATISTICS LOW

The run time of UPDATE STATISTICS LOW can be reduced by setting the parameter USTLOW_SAMPLE which also reduces I/O by using a sampling algorithm. However the table data may be deemed to be too heavily skewed and the engine falls back to a full sca...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Mechanism to identify a workload and adjust memory values

Workloads can be different in a database, executed at different times. When the STMM is active, and a workload (let's say A) runs for several hours, then the memory will be fine adjuted for the workload at the end of the execution. However, for th...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Workload Management 0 Not under consideration

resource consumption auditing

my management team is asking for a report of the reports /dashboards within cognos that are consuming the most cpu resource. management wants to understand why we need to maintain the cpu allocation that we currently have for cognos. In order to p...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement load-balancing in Cognos Analytics

Implement load-balancing in Cognos Analytics
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dark mode

A dark mode would be great, much easier on the eyes!
almost 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Search bar in PaFe

A new search bar should be inserted in the PaFe. It is important that the departments can find not only content, but also levels such as month / year, branch or transaction type, etc. Or also hierarchies such as articles.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance report Run History properties settings by individual sections

Our expectation is user should not be changing the properties once they are set to default by Cognos admin. Currently for my contents report properties users can make the setting change to last 5 occurrences/day(s)/months. Due to the GDPR policy w...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow the DECLARE-part of a cursor in EXPLAIN

Over the years options you can use in a cursor were enhanced more and more, but you still can only explain the SELECT-clause of the cursor. But sometimes access path are considerably different, if you use a rowset cursor.
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Connect EF Core support in Azure Function with WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE enabled

when running in azure functions it is severely recommended you have WEBSITE_RUN_FROM_PACKAGE enabled as this makes your runtime code secure. however we found via support case with IBM that the license directory must ALWAYS be writable and there is...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

Disable query hints in Cognos Report Studio

While creating reports in Report Studio, some users are over riding the governor settings of the packages by using "Query Hints" option in query property and we would like a way to prevent these over rides. We are primary concerned with "Maximum R...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration