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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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Backup/Restore GUI within HQ

One of the least enjoyable tasks is to using the archecker utility. Many times we need to restore just a row and/or rows in a table from an ontape backup. Restoring an entire database is easy from the command line. It would be very helpful if HQ c...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future consideration

Permission model for Dashboards and Reports

In our environment, a few different teams will make use of different reporting capabilities in LSF Explorer in different scopes. Therefore they will be creating different reports and dashboards. So there is the need to introduce something like a p...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 2 Not under consideration

use raw table to bulk load/huge files in Informix cluster

raw table load and copy of raw table data availability read only secondary, RSS sec. in a HDR cluster. A big one for us. How do we load billion + row table in a HDR cluster without consuming too many logical logs? Is there a way to load a raw tabl...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Active reports .mht viewing alternative

With IE not supported soon, allow any browser to view standalone active reports
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Cognos 11 certification for ISAM

The customer is looking for this technote to be updated with Cognos Analytics 11. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24022695 There current configuration is as follows: onfigured SSO from WebSeal 7.0.0.26 to Cognos v11.0.7 through IH...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Remove report name prefix from burst output name

We have as requirement send a PDF report via email from Cognos, with a specific custom name. We have already the custom name save into burst field but we would like to remove the report name prefix of the PDF file name generated. Because from Even...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Disable auto-refresh functionality for all users on Infosphere Datastage Director

Customer want to stop the "auto-refresh" option of Datastage Director Client for all users connecting to a Windows machine. He already know about the StopRefresh keyword under HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/IBM/InformationServer... but this is only va...
about 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Apache Drill connector for Cognos Analytics

Wells Fargo is in the process of expanding the use of their MapR Hadoop environment to a larger community within Wells Fargo. Potential additional Cognos users could be in the thousands. They are looking for a business analytics solution for their...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

create indexes for external tables

External tables are a great asset for ETL, and extending a bit the concept, they could be the base for a great ETL client.Often, one external table is the source of several ETL tasks, therefore it must be read sequentially several times, even if t...
over 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics SSO documentation redo

Fix or communicate the proper and complete configuration for Single Sign On and Image browsing in Cognos 11. Especially using the Cognosisapi.dll and what the configuration needs to be to get this to work. There's been ~2800 hits in the CogNoise w...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration