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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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Fix the Party Relationship Transactions

We’ve recently stubbed our toes on an inconsistency in the implementations of addPartyRelationShip()/getPartyRelationship()/updatePartyRelationship(). The CONTACTREL tables, as well as the transactions above, explicitly represent the relationships...
11 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Ability to copy currency rates across more than one period

The main reason for copying currency rates is to copy ‘Constant’ rates through the 12 months of a Budget and/or Forecast actuality, and actuals restated at ‘Constant‘ rates. Therefore, it makes sense for consolidation/super users to be able to cop...
11 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Enabling SQL Pushback for Sampling Nodes in Google BigQuery

We would like to have sampling nodes (random % ) Pushback enabled when connecting to Google BigQuery. When Pushback is disabled in Google BigQuery, the database write process becomes very slow. We would like it to be enabled for frequently used pr...
almost 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Future consideration

Enhancement to DROP PROCEDURE / DROP FUNCTION syntax

Currently, the DROP PROCEDURE statement requires that the all of the procedure parameters necessary to completely identify the specific procedure. This is important due to Informix supporting polymorphic procedures, and is generally a good thing. ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Not under consideration

On restore or chunk addition allow automatic creation of files in certain folders.

On restore or chunk creation allow automatic creation of cooked files. Add an onconfig parameter which contains a list of folders where automatic cooked chunk creation is allowed. Cooked chunk files can be automatically created in this folder of a...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Make searchpath available to extensions

We have an extension to add entries to the context menu (...) of reports and reportviews. These new entries should only appear in specific folders. For example there are two folders: FOLDER1 and FOLDER2. The context menu of all reports/reportviews...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Print all IC-reports at once

Users run Company>Reconcile>Intercompany balances for a company and many IC-reports. Then they want to print all the IC-reports and have to pick them one by one. They want to have a button "Print all".
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add Transaction Application lock types to the DBMS_LOCK package

We understand that there is an implementation of a version of the Oracle DBMS_LOCK package (minus transaction type and various modes) available on Db2 for LUW. While we can make some use of the session application lock type, we also have a need fo...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

PAW report URL - possibility to assign alias (instead of using URL)

Deploy a PAW report to production environment without changing the URL of the report? Background: Updates of reports that are created with design features are saved as Chrome favorites by many end users. Deploying the changes with import functiona...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Ability to select dashboard crosstab summarization for rows, columns or both

The "Show summary" property for the crosstab visualization in dashboards provides both row and column summaries. In many instances you may only want to summarize columns, or inversely only rows. It would be very useful if this could be controlled.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release