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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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Online change of indexes

We would like to be able to alter indexes as an online change, regardless of whether it is a duplicate index or a unique index (in the latter case it will often be the addition of include columns). We often have changes to indexes in connection wi...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Add Favourite Favorite item to navigation menu

I require a quick way to access my favourite reports, dashbards, folders. Currently I have to create shortcuts in my content, or search etc. this is clunky. On the home menu, that has Home, New, Upload Data, Recent, there should be a 'Favourites' ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Make field descriptions and screen tips also available for Analytics Users

We get more and more questions on the visibility of data lineage and data dictionary entries of data items in packages and data modules for analytics users for compliancy reasons. At this moment an author can see the description and screen tip of ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Reintroduce the Proven Practice documents

IBM used to provide a number of proven practice documents that covered reporting, Admin, modelling etc. While the link to the webpage still exists in the on line documentation, the page is redirected to to an unrelated site. Documentation page - h...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Request for supporting MQ automatic client reconnect

As we know, IBM MQ supports multi-instance configuration and automatic client reconnect since version 7.0.1. Recently we found the latest Q-Relication (11.4.0) even not support such a basic function( automatic client reconnect with multi-instance ...

Chart Data Field Options to include Months

It would be useful to display some data in charts by Months, based off a selected date field on the object. In our example, we want to display Reg Changes by Status grouped by effective date. So we create a filter on the Reg Change to only pull In...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Nonlinear solver for CPLEX

Add nonlinear optimization capability to CPLEX. Many real-life models are nonlinear by nature. CPLEX solver requires a linear model to work. A good nonlinear solver can often times overperform a linearized form of a real-life model. Having a nonli...
almost 7 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 1 Future consideration

need to force the "Team Content" show in a "list" view rather than the "tile" view.

we need to force the "Team Content" show in a "list" view rather than the "tile" view. Cognos 11.2 remembers the last option selected, and it presents it to the user. The "List" view must be called and overwrite any pre-existing view.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

LDAP

TIAA has a very complex LDAP active directory hierarchy that continues to grow overtime. There are numerous user accounts spread out across OUs and TIAA’s provisioning automation is built around the OU structure. We are requesting an enhancement t...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Inactive Users identified via the TFUI

It would be useful to have an easy way to identify inactive users via the TFUI. We have an internal policy where accounts are de-activated after 90 days inactivity. These accounts could be Risk Owners, Control Owners etc. Having a mechanism whereb...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration