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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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Auto save workbooks prior to automatic disconnect

The new release of Paw forces a disconnect after 60 minutes of inactivity. There are a number of times when we are working on reports or development that we are called away for a meeting that will last over 60 minutes. When we return all of our wo...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered

Provide compression capability for LOB tablespaces

As per IBM DB2 documentation, data in a LOB tablespace can not be compressed. The new feature we are requesting is that compression be available for LOB tablespaces.
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

FastMap: User should not be able to change object name if Auto-Named settings are Enabled and "Can be Edited" is set to False

When Auto-Named settings are enabled for both New Object and Copied Object, using FastMap, even if the "Can be Edited" is set to FALSE, users can force a different Name for new created objects. With such configurations we need to prevent FastMap u...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 4 Delivered

Enforce that the user is assigned to the profileName referenced in the Definition sheet in order to upload data

We need Fastmap to check if the profileName set in the Definition sheet is among those configured for the user who is uploadingdata, and apply the corresponding permissions. E.g.: if User 1 is associated to Profile A and User 2 is associated to Pr...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 4 Delivered

Ability to create custom Dashboard Templates

Current templates provided with Cognos 11 are a good start. But it soon becomes necessary to create your own templates. There needs to be a way to create a variety of dashboard templates.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Create a new report in additional to ANLDELTA, one line per SQL statement meeting the filtering requirements

Need new report to make it easy to see queries easily which have increased costs, decreased costs and new statements. This is based on filters. ANLDELTA has alot of detail which makes it very difficult to determine what queries with increase cost ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 2 Delivered

Deactivate report object toolbar

We would like to have the possibility to disable the "report object toolbar" in the Cognos viewer with full interactivity when executing the report. Before the 11.2 version, we had'ent not this toolbar in html output.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Delivered

Delegate Plan application ownership to user groups

With the current design of the Plans that can be submitted in PAW new experience, only PAW admins can manage submissions; this is a very limiting factor, as planning in real life doesn't work like this. In an average environment I' work with, ther...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

It would be good if Cognos Transformer 11 supports TLS 1.2

It would be good if Cognos Transformer 11 supports TLS 1.2If the cognos analytics components communicate securely between the dispatcher and gateway, Cognos Transformer 11 does not support connecting to the dispatcher by using TLS 1.2, it only sup...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

CDC should support Oracle 12c extended data types

Current CDC version (11.4) although supports Oracle 12, doesn't support what Oracle calls "extended data types":https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/SQLRF/sql_elements001.htm#SQLRF55623 Basically on 12c Oracle allows longer maximums for types VARC...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Delivered