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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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2-Phase commit for JDBC driver to Postgres

We use a replication solution which utilizes DB2 LUW Federation as a link between DB2 z/OS (source database) and Postgres (target database). So the picture is as follows: SQL Replication 11.4 -Db2 z/OS 12 on mainframe, -Db2 LUW Federation 11.5.8, ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 1 Needs more information

Increase medium performance to upload data via FastMap

The medium performance to upload data via FastMap is unacceptable by the client. The uploading time of 3 records per second must be reduced to 6 records per second. We are referring to the simple upload, with just the standard FastMap checks, with...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Future consideration

disable change locale

We would like to have an option to be able to disable the Change Locale on a per profile basis or as a application permission similar to how we can disable access to standard UI. This is to prevent users from being able to change locale under the ...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Not under consideration

PAW: Assign colors to elements

It would be great to have the option to centrally assign a color to an element in a dimension. i.e. Actuals are always black, budget always blue, forecast always green. These colors could then show up by default in any charts and maybe also as fon...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

PAfE - In an exploration directly to the deepest member defined in the set

The desire to have the ability to expand directly to the deepest member defined in the set during an exploration
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Informix Enterprise Gateway - add support for Oracle NVARCHAR2 datatype

Need to access a table in Oracle 11g with datatype NVARCHAR2 , but always fail with error : 29050: Error accessing schema information (field number 4 SQL type not recognized.{Sub=0x0430,Ifx=-29044,Obj=TARGE).
about 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Allow users to scroll Excel reports in PAW when the cursor is in the report area

In PAW workspace one can scroll up and down when the cursor is not within the excel report area. However, The scrolling function will not work in PAWworkspace when the mouse cursor is within the excel report. PAW should allow users to scroll withi...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

OpenPages - Generate reporting periods in an automatic and scheduled way

New reporting periods are generated by user in OpenPages manually. It would be very helpful a new function to schedule the creation of reporting periods when you create them always at the same moment in the month, quarter or year.
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 2 Not under consideration

Creation of Business Terms from Cognos Assets

It should be possible to create business terms based on a imported data model or Cognos report artefacts to speed up the process of developing a business glossar. As the documentation of Cognos Reports/key figures, dimensions is one of the use cas...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Not under consideration

Restrict Users from sharing Credentials to run reports/jobs

In IBM Congos connection going to "My Area Options" > "My Preferences" > "Personal" tab users can add other users to share thier credentials to run activities. This can't be controlled from capabilities or by customizing xml files.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration