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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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New Db2 ZPARM for specifying SMS storage & management classes for FlashCopy image copies

When doing FlashCopy image copies the Db2 utilities create image copies by ADRDSSU and it passes the same SMS storage & management classes as the Db2 spaces.This is not always wanted as the performance and management requirements are in most c...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Applications using book tabs as resources (not the whole book)

When you create a new section on a given application, the only option you have is to include a full book as a resource. If possible, for user experience reasons, it would be nice if we could apply Book Tabs as application resources. Let's say we h...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Optimizer does not use HIGH2KEY/LOW2KEY for columns with COLCARD 1

Optimization issue if a business_time_oriented table has only one row. In syscat.columns the content of the business_time columns are detected (high2key, low2key) but the value can not be found in the distribution statistics. This leads default fi...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Configure Cognos Mail Server using OAuth

With the deprecation of basic authentication scheduled for October, the configuration of our SMTP server (Exchange online) will no longer work as this uses basic authentication. We need a way to use OAuth to connect to our 365 smtp server. There i...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Asymmetrical Views on Drill Through

Drill through only support traditional views. Can the functionality be expanded to include MDX views in the ReturnViewHandle?
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

HADR/Pacemaker for AIX

While HADR/Pacemaker for Linux is available, Pacemaker for AIX is not availabe and needed now to avoid a hold-up in our adoption of Db2 vNext.
10 months ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Future consideration

Planning Analytics Dynamic Chart Titles

A clear, descriptive chart title helps users efficiently and effectively comprehend what they are viewing. We'd like to see the Chart Title capability elevated from a static string to optionally include dynamic expressions capable of relaying curr...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Deploy custom global palettes which are only used as conditionial palettes too

When a custom global palette is only used in a conditional palette of a visualization of a dashboard, then after export and import of the dashboard on the target system the custom global palette is missing and the conditional palette of the visual...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

LOAD - Add ability to bypass REPORT phase when duplicates are present

Processing a TS with a lot of duplicates. We never look at the data from the REPORT phase. Also it takes a very long time to produce. Would like the ability to have a keyword to bypass this
5 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Applications and Plans: Plan Announcements generates an email alert per task

When an Announcement is posted in a PAW Plan, it triggers an email alert to each user assigned to each task, instead of one email to each user part of the plan. For example - In the one Plan we have, there are 30 tasks. The Capacity Planner securi...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration