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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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Enable Cognos BI to integrate with FileNet CPE 5.2.1.5 and greater

Update the code to integrate between Cognos BI and FileNet CPE 5.2.1.5 and higher.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add IF NOT EXISTS logic to ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT

alter table mytab add constraint if not exists foreign key .... alter table mytab add constraint if not exists primary key .... alter table mytab add constraint if exists drop constraint ....
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

IBM SPSS Statistics concurrent license manager via web portal

Please add a web portal for managing licenses and users instead of the traditional Sentinel RMS LM. The courrent UI style and the tools it provides are outdated and very old fashion. A revision of the current SPSS license tool to be managed via cl...
over 1 year ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Additional Runstats and Copy options when Applying a Change

When applying Schema change using DOE to a target test environment the following additional Runstats and Copy options would be very beneficial: Preserve existing Runstats (rather than Runstats Yes or No) Allow the option of No Copy, but do REPAIR ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Ability to change date format display on date entry

When I am editing a business term and I choose to set a start or end date the format is in USA date format. This should be able to be changed to other formats for none USA deployments
about 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Value Prompt: Multi-select and Auto-submit

In Cognos 10.2.1 Fix Pack 3, I could set Auto-submit = Yes and Multi-select = Yes on a value prompt. At some point thereafter, the ability to have that combination was removed. IBM Support has stated that having both of those properties = Yes can ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Timestamp(12) support in SQL

Please update all timestamp related SQL functions, in particular TIMESTAMPADD and TIMESTAMPDIFF, to support picoseconds.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Suppress Zeros

I have zero supress on, but when I have calculations included in the report, the output includes all values and doesn't suppress. In this case below – all materials are being shown Is this to do with the calculation or how do I remove/suppress a...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Shadow Column Creation "online"

Currently the shadow columns are very relevant with ER however it causes an outage and I dont see why we cant create them just as we create online indexes. Its the same concept and this would allow HDR database servers capable of migrating to ER w...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Closing streams

A very useful functionality would be to be able to close streams with a shortcut (usually ctrl + w). Currently I have to right click on each streams then "close the streams" it's not user friendly.For Mac, Windows also.
about 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration