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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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create Planning Analytics queries in reporting and data modules using custom MDX

The custom SQL object is useful in reporting and data modules for creating tables from relational sources using raw query language. The same could be said for the custom MDX object, but this does not support the Planning Analytics data source conn...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Search for function in report data item expression editor

Funtions from the Funtions tab are used very often in the report data item expression editor. But sometimes you don't know the precise name or which are available for your data source by heart. So a simple search by name (and description/Tips) wou...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of Cognos Treeprompt

The existing Tree-Prompt ist not sufficient for complex selections, especially in large dimensions.An enhancement would be preciated.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Full STMM support for BLU

Today SORTHEAP and SHEAPTHRES_SHR need to be set to a fixed value to run BLU.The STMM tuned adjustment don't need to be highly sophisticated. E.g. keeping 60/40 ratio for bufferpool/sheapthres_shr and adjust sortheap as ratio taking the amount of ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Mark in FTM Base the master message that is sent to MER for printing

The problem is when users have several messages to send from FTM Base to MER for print. In the meantime they receive another message and when they return to search again, they lose track of which message they were on and it can happen that the scr...
almost 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Cascading Delete Enhancement

Currently it is not possible to have different scenarios for the cascading delete functionality. Objects can be excluded from the cascading delete entirely or not. There is no way to decide whether to delete an object depending on different use ca...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

auto size search and select prompt in cognos report studio

By default the search and select prompt has fixed width when used on the prompt page, there is a system setting where it expands to width of contents automatically. Unfortunately that setting never worked at all, check note belowhttp://www-01.ibm....
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

For the -12.. Conversion errors, please specify the column name.

It is quite hard to find the column that contains a wrong value in update/inserts statements with many columns in case of such an error message. For other errors the column name is in the sqlca structure. Why is it missing for the conversion error...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Enable DSNTIAUL to generate NUMRECS in the punchdataset

The UNLOAD using DSNUTILB generates the NUMRECS parameter which makes the Allocation of Sort/Workdatasets for the Load utility very effective. Because some collegues use IKJEFT01 (DSNTIAUL) for unloading data, we tried to use NUMRECS here also. Bu...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow an optional "Callback URL" in "Add Document" Discovery API request

We, frequently, write services to poll Discovery for a document's status after we POST a document for ingestion. If, within the request body, we could include a callback URL for Discovery to asynchronously POST a completion message to, we could cu...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Not under consideration