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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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Provide status indicator when performing LDAP searches

There are many enhancements to improve the way that Cognos searches through LDAP servers but what would be helpful in the interim would be some sort of status indicator that Cognos is working on the search. Right now it just appears as if the page...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Separate user for working with Informix CDC API

Currently the Informix CDC API requires the use of the 'informix' account. We would like the Informix CDC API modified so that it can run in a fully supported fashion as a separate user.
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

CREATE TABLE ...LIKE support for AoT Tables

Currently, A CREATE TABLE statement must not contain a LIKE clause that references an accelerator-only table. It is documented in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPEK_12.0.0/codes/src/tpc/n270.html
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Implementation of Designtime Column Propagation to the DataStage Designer

Building new Jobs with DataStage ist implemented good, but amending these Jobs later can be a source of pain, especially if you have to add, delte or amend a column. It should be possible to add a new column or amend an existing one and propagate ...
almost 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Functionality already exists

LOCK1-Structure

By drop database with many objects (TS,IX,Part) and a lot of statistic data, it can happen that the Lock1 structure gets full. Other possible reasons for LOCK1-Structure full conditions during DDL (DROP): - Object has to many entries in SYSIBM.SYS...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CANCEL THREAD Enhancement - to cancel threads by specifying a SCOPE(ssid)

This will help in cancelling of threads running in any of the LPARs in a Parallel Sysplex. Currently, DISPLAY THREAD supports SCOPE(GROUP). So, this would be a good feature to have. These can be very useful during IPLs when some thread is holding ...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IIS vulnerability related to Cognos required settings

IIS vulnerability: The concern regarding "Allow unlisted file name extensions" in IIS has been raised with us previously and has been reviewed by our Development team. Unfortunately our Development team have confirmed that at this time "Allow unli...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

PAW - wide of dimension column

Dear Mr./Mrs. We propose to enable expand dimension column so that than whole name of element is visible. Currently, the max column size is set and elements with longer name are not displayed completely. Please, see the picture Thank you Best rega...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow to select parts of a profile to be exported / imported, rather than a full profile

Transferring functionality in our TAP street is quite a hassle as it is impossible to export only part of a profile. Now you can only export a full profile and then import the complete profile. This take very long. I sometimes now edit the XML to ...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Need more logging information in Cognos Administration Tool

In the "Past Activities" (IBM Cognos Administration‬ > Status > Past Activities),we can see the status of past scheduled reports.The customer also want to see the following information in this function.-Past all executed reports.(Not only ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration