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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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De-couple view window from Excel-sheet

When one opens a view in PAfE, it stays in the front, even when one clicks beside into an Excel cell. One has to minimize the window actively to pull the Excel-sheet to the front. The normal Windows behavior for overlapping windows is, that the on...
16 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Automate the clean up of orphan rows in the database catalogs during the db2ckupgrade processing.

We have been dealing with orphan rows in the database catalogs for many years now. The first tool to deal with this was db2cleancat and it has gone through various iterations to address all of the various flavors of this type of issue and now has ...
6 days ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

Support for ON DELETE SET NULL and ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses in FOREIGN KEY statements

A customer wanted to use a construction like ALTER TABLE detail_table ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (link_column) REFERENCES master_table ON DELETE SET NULL; so that referencing values would be updated to NULL automatically if a parent row was delete...
about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Prebuilt row count function on Cognos Report

We've noticed a challenge with our reports: users often need to gauge the scope of the data they're dealing with, which currently isn't straightforward in Cognos Reporting. While our reports can generate outputs ranging from 10,000 to 3 million re...
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Extend Cognos Analytics product documentation by information about 3rd party certificates

I was activating ssl in a customer's productive cognos analytics environment. I followed the instructions of the corresponding product documentation for cognos analytics 11.2.4: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.2.0?topic=ecmica-conf...
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Pacemaker to support Multiple primary VIPs across different interfaces if needed

We have a requirement to isolate the public traffic and qreplication traffic, so we normally create two interfaces on servers , one for public and one for qrep, currently with TSA we create a floating VIP for public interface and one for qrep inte...
10 days ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 0 Submitted

Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

REST API: return more object details

For the Cognos Analytics REST API to provide the ability to remotely and automatically administer Cognos Analytics, all information about objects must be available through the REST API. Please make detailed items like report specifications, data m...
30 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Request to implement Folders for Jobs, similar to what has been implemented for Assets

While the implementation of the folder structure for many assets has been implemented with 4.8.2, it is missing for jobs. This is particularly important in a large environment with many thousands of jobs running daily. In legacy DataStage 11.7 the...
2 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

A "OCP centric" DR solution

Intesa SanPaolo needs to organize periodically DR tests. These tests are conducted by creating OpenShift clusters in a isolate environment only when needed (once the DR test is completed, the clusters are deleted). Specifically, the client current...
4 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted