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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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Data Server Connection Table Count Filter - don't display empty user schemas

Filter schemas listed under Data Server Connections to only display those with objects under to be pulled. There's no sense to list all possible data containers if most of them are empty and just throws a warning. Additionally extraneous entries c...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing format in Filter

A list report has been created. Filtered to a numeric field ([paragraph (query)]. [Time]. [Year] = 2013).The filter text has been displayed.The value is displayed with thousands separators.• For the query element [Paragraph (Query)]. [Time]. [Ye...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom shapes to be used in reports as well

Customs shapes can be used in dashboards. Would be nice to have them available in reports as well.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow disabling automatic Next Extent calculations

Informix automatically doubles the Next Extent size for every 16 extents on a table. This action will continue until an extent is large enough to provide at least 10% free space. On very large, slow-growing tables, this can lead to an incredible w...
about 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support "Dynamic Distribution Groups" in Cognos Analytics

Dear, Customer would like to use "Dynamic Distribution Groups" coming from AD for bursting purpose. It is not supported for the moment (see TS001311817).
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

db2move with copy yes option

using db2move to load data in ab HADR enabled database breack the hadr cluster as this command don't support any option to force the use of COPY YES option during load operation., that without any warning or confirmation message.As a consequence, ...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

No need to restart the OPTIM service for the server settings changes to take effect

Currently and according to IBM documentation " Note: If you make changes to the configuration of a Server while it is running, click Apply , then stop and start the Server to effect the changes." As we're having more customers using TDM we are try...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Audit pkg and CM Tool

When auditing, it would be ne nice to create a report that contains the following data set information: date refreshed, size, number of rows, number of columns, and time to refresh. It would help us to troubleshoot any data set refresh errors and ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Prompts for all db2 utility cancellations

I have faced this issue at the beginning of my career. When we ran into some issue with utility hung or ran some utility accidentally don’t know when it will be finished and when can we kill that process. If we give a prompt with some information ...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Using distinct subsets and/or dimension attributes on distinct views on a same tab/book

Customer has a book with two views, one is a exploration, the other is a bar graph. Both this views are using the same cube and dimensions. A dimension (Region) has as its names/codes values are MS1, MS2, MG1, MG2 and so on. Captions for these ele...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration