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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Add constant to centralized Key of ER Consolidation Model

We want to consolidate the data from our stores to one centralized server, but we can't modify the existing tables. Each store is identical. We need the consolidated model to have an additional value in the unique key of the centralized server of ...
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard List Visualization Direction Property

Add a property to the list visualization that allows users to specify a vertical or horizontal list.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Option to get a warning if strings are truncated during an insert

There should be an option to get a warning if strings are truncated during an insert. Especially this warning is needed when a string is inserted using the functionality of encyption. If the encrypted string is truncated during insertion, the reco...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Functionality already exists

Wrong result from reading Archive Enabled Tables with GET_ARCHVIE set to Y

When reading Archive Enabled Tables we set a value for the global variable GET_ARCHIVE in order to get the appropriate result. If we set it to N only the base table is read. If we set it to Y we want both the base table and the archive table to be...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Wrong result from reading System Temporal Tables with CURRENT TEMPORAL SYSTEM_TIME set to a non-NULL value

When reading System Temporal Tables we set a value for the special register CURRENT TEMPORAL SYSTEM_TIME in order to get the appropriate result. If it is NULL only the base table is read. If it is not NULL we want both the base table and the histo...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Column formatting to auto show full contents of cells

Users currently have to set the column width of all columns independently, and this is not saved as part of the view definition, which means it has to be done each time the view is opened.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Multi-tenancy support with Azure AD (openID connection)

We want an option where we can tell Cognos to ignore the issuer value. Issuer value is only needed if we need to make access based decisions based on tenant id. In our environments we have no requirement of using this functionality. This seems to ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add Confidentiality setting tag to Excel outputs

More and more clients are enabling and using the Confidentiality settings in Excel. This means that any Excel file opened in their environment, that does not have yet a Confidentiality setting (Public - Restricted - Confidential - Highly Confident...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Report Which Member(s) Are Holding Up Commit-LSN Advancement

Requesting that Db2 issue a message when the commit LSN enhancement hasn't made progress for in a reasonable period of time, preferably with the LSN of all Db2 members so that Db2 customers can identify which member(s) could be holding up the LSN ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Be able to identify and monitor "scheduled" executions in the Audit database

Please also refer to Support Case "TS003490098" for more details. Our Cognos admin team regularly uses the Audit database to monitor Cognos activity by the end users. However, we have recently discovered that one important end user reporting behav...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration