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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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Multiline Labels on Map Visualisations

I would like to be able to display Multi Line Labels on the Map Visualisation. This would allow me to display a customer address over several lines like an address label. I have tried appending the address details separated by Carriage Return, or ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Multiple retention periods for OnBar

Multiple retention periods for OnBar. Allow two or more retention periods to be defined for OnBar backup. For example, 0 – 60 Days: Keep all backup objects, Level 0, 1, 2 and Logical Logs61 – 120 Days: Keep selected backup objects, Level 0 and...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Improve Tab - Filter for Low Confidence but not Irrelevant

I would like to be able to filter logs to find user utterances that are not irrelevant but are less than 50% (for example) confidence so that I can decide whether they were correctly understood or whether they should be added to the examples for a...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under consideration

Add additional options to the Share functionality

We often share reports with users via the share functionality within the portal (right-click>Share>Link). This creates a url which can then be emailed (or embedded in other reports and web pages etc). We often need to further edit the url to...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Throttle writes during chunk creation

When adding chunks to an instance which is using filesystem files there can be a large amount of disk writes in a short period of time to zero out the new chunk which can impact production systems. E.g. Adding a 10GB chunk causes unacceptable clie...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

New UI – Cannot provide an order of Custom Tabs for all users

New UI – Cannot provide an order of Custom Tabs for all users Refer to PMR TS003370023
over 4 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

When using onsmsync, the -t option should ONLY query Storage Manager for objects that fit criteria

It appears based on logs from storage manager that when the -t flag is used in onsmsync that the Storage Manager is queried for all objects residing in the sysutils database, and not just for those objects that are greater than the date time value...
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Cloud Systems Monitoring

IBM Cloud Ops and subsequently customers should be notified when outages occur. Specifically, if LDAP goes down or is not running, somebody should be notified and it should be started.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

CDC shouldn't require a cleanup of staging store and transaction queues to refresh a table already in scope

On a shared scrape instance, we noticed that if we need to refresh a table (or add one to replication scope), with rule based replication the start of the subscription (for refresh) will fail if there's an open transaction on the table. From the m...
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

LOAD utility by pass checking pending status for empty tables

When LOAD utility is run on a referentially integrated table (child table) while both parent and child tables are empty (no rows) let DB2 refer to RTS data and decide NOT to put the table in CHECK PENDING status.
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration