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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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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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Support for VARBINARY data type (HANA) in DQM in IBM Cognos Analytics

The import of fields with the data type VARBINARY from HANA in IBM Framework Manager rises an error. To connect to HANA DQM mode is required. The import of fields with an VARBINARY data type in IBM Framework Manager causes the DQM-error XQE-GEN-00...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Wordcloud interactivity

Currently, a word cloud is filtered by the filters in the "all tabs" or "this tab" pane. When a user applies a filter on another visualization, the words in the cloud will be highlighted. We would like to have the ability in the properties to opti...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request to not ask business users to escape reserved characters on the FTS

Business users are often missing to add the escape characters “\\” as it is confusing for them to perform this type of search. We should have a workaround on this such as say use a double quote to search for an exact match, etc.
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Request to index catalog by catalog

Our customer has more than 25 million data and it is not feasible to do a full indexing every month with multiple days of downtime. Indexing by catalog helps us big time.
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE Allow implicit PACKAGE BIND by the application

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE change to allow an implicit PACKAGE BIND by the application. Currently Db2 marks the PACKAGE (SYSCAT.PACKAGES) as inoperative by marking VALID = 'X' which requires an explicit bind. This causes an outage in a 24x7 environment. S...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Db2 FCIC should provide option to avoid taking long time with IGD17291I message

Please refer to the existing RFE ID 126885, "FCIC JOB takes long time with msg IGD17291I", opened from z/OS (DFSMS DSS) side, also. The data amount will be extremely increasing in our customer. To minimize data unavailability, they are trying to ...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Referential Integrity for Real-time Statistics Tables (RI for RTS)

OVERVIEW: The RTS tables do not have DB2-enforced RI. The DB2 component that handles the maintenance of this data can encounter certain failures that can result in obsolete/invalid/orphaned data in the table(s). By the way, this is more prevalent ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Audit tables - Customer would like to see report names when running a report in Workspace Advance and Report Studio Instead

When customer opens a report that has been previously saved in Workspace Advanced and Report Studio and runs report interactively the report is audited as adHocReport
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[Enh| Use of Web Fonts in IBM Cognos

Client would like to see IBM Cognos enhanced to be able to support the use of web fonts like those provided by Google.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ENH: Add a macro function to calculate the datetime using the timezone set in the User Preferences

The current macro function toLocal returns the string representing a timestamp with time zone resulting from adjusting ""string_expression"" to the time zone of the operating system.An enhancement has been requested for a similar function that use...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration