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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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Separate workfile allocation into different latches

Currently, the WACT latch governs all workfile allocation usage. When the customer ran workload failover testing, the WACT latch proved to be a bottleneck. Root cause analysis determined that the bottleneck came from the fact that multiple types o...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Display the number of active users logged on

It would be beneficial if the total number of users logged on to Controller is displayed in the function View Active Users. Today we have to count the number of users manually and it´s quite time consuming if there are more than 150 users logged ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Authorization for ALTER Commands at schema level

Our DBA team receives countless requests to reset sequence values for our developers. This is a tedious task that should be a self-service task for our developers. We need some mechanism to allow our developers the ability to alter these sequences...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Dashboard,Waterfall graph:How to move X-axis item names.

The X-axis item names are displayed at the bottom. When many items are lined up on the X-axis, the problem is that the user's line of sight moves significantly. I would like to add a function to move the item name on the X-axis.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Need to see actual query generated when running a report

The report query generated "Show Generated SQL/MDX" is not the same as the query that is traced on report execution Targeted to Report Studio
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Login PAX - store credentials

PAX - Without setting up SSO we would like to have an option in the pop up login page to save credentials
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace PPT Download Zoom Percentage Increase

After downloading dashboard in Planning Analytics Workspace, Zoom Percentage of the slide should be 100 by default. Currently is is showing as 58%. First slide is having the Header name of the dashboard, there should be an option not to get this s...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

inactive party contact methods – performance issue

We are maintaining history in the main tables only as we are end dating and adding new records for any demographics change. We have observed in Performance testing environment few Parties are having 500+ end dated record for Contact methods and 4 ...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Primary Key and Relationship Analysis

Currently, through API CTC can only perform Primary Key and Relationship Key analyses for all assets in the enrichment area. We need an API through which we can select individual assets (within an enrichment area) for Primary Key and Relationship ...
about 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

Support connection to KDB datasource on linux installation for Cognos Analytics

We have a global BI platform Cognos Analytics (linux) solution within ING and we want to use that for all the ING users worldwide. We already received requests for connecting KDB to Cognos. I would estimate around a couple of hundred of users that...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration