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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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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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REORG SORTDATA NO should unload to shadow datasets and not unload to SYSREC

Changing DSSIZE for large table using SORTDATA NO, unloads to SYSREC. Since the volume of data is so large, SYSREC needs to go to tape. This causes the reorg to have greater elapsed time. Unloading to the shadows would greatly reduce the elapsed t...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Control Flow Guard (CFG) not enabled

BM Infosphere Data Replication Management Console, does not have Control Flow Guard (CFG) enabled. Control Flow Guard is a security feature which helps protect applications against memory corruption vulnerabilities by restricting where an applicat...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Planned for future release

Deploy - Export/Import Datasources

Deploy - when we check deploy datasources, cognos deploys all the datasources in the environment.1. Like other areas in Cognos - we should be able to create DS in groups, inside a nice folder and deploy then in groups or individually - with creden...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Issue with Cognos Axes

Issue with Axes in Cognos reports, please go thru enclosed document, it has the details
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add advanced setting to cancel jobs in waiting status

Would like to have an Advanced Setting that would limit how long Jobs or Scheduled reports are stuck in a "Waiting" state.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Less time consuming way to make negative numbers red in a list report

It's so easy to put negative numbers in brackets but to colour them red you have to use a conditional format on each column. This can be time consuming and laborious when the list report is very wide. No less than 12 mouse clicks are required for ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CSV upload of consolidations to batch queue

The area of interest is the Consolidation batch queue. We have to consolidate all actualities and periods, both monthly and weekly including linked actualities on a quarterly basis. It can be time consuming uploading the consolidations into the ba...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

audit logs should distinguish user cancel from report failure

Our executives get monthly updates on report failure rates from our Cognos BI hosted solution. We find that a significant portion of the reports that are recorded in audit tables (cogipf_runreport) are actually user cancels. In order to develop ac...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Encrypt source code for procedure/function

There are lots of ISV out there looking for security feature where it can encrypt the source code for stored procedure and function(written in SPL).
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

OpenPages UI Tooltip to show field-specific info when mouse hover over a field in an object view

Customer requested this feature. End users would like to see additional info explaining the current field they are about to fill out in an OpenPages object record. End users would to mouse hover over a field and get hints and additional details to...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Functionality already exists