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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.

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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Company notification

Hello, My organization has enabled a notification beneath the green bar on preproduction in Cognos (preproduction will be down on a certain date). This notification appears every time a session is started. I start a lot of sessions during during m...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Having a Reload View feature in PAW like in Perspective and Architecte

In Architect and Perspectives there are options "Reload view" or "Reload private view" in order to reload the initial saved view. This is very useful when you need to drill down from a general view to a more noarron view. Then you change the data ...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Excel based import in workflow doesn’t indicate the fields which are mandatory, editable, viewable at step level.

Workflow excel based import doesn’t indicate the fields which are mandatory/required at step level, what are editable for user and what are viewable. It would be good if there can be a color coding for the user to know upfront at export that what ...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Attribute Properties Hidden not available for Lookup Specs

We had an use case to keep the primary key to be sequenced provided the legacy data should be loaded to the table with its own sequence and then later the primary keys have to be autogenerated. This was achieved by maintaining an internal sequence...
almost 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Future consideration

Remove CHAR Space Padding In ODBC Driver 4.10

Other drivers (Informix JDBC / Open Link etc) have the ability to automatically TRIM trailing spaces from character fields - we badly need the same feature applied to ODBC. We note that the VARCHAR / NVARCHAR equivalent has just been added to ODBC...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Need support for Oracle clustered tables

Request for IDR/CDC for Oracle to support sourcing from Oracle clustered tables. At this time, the documentation indicates this is not supported.
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

REORG with the DISCARD WHEN ... and AUX YES option on a table that contains a LOB column should end with an error

When doing a REORG with the DISCARD WHEN ... and AUX YES option on a table that contains a LOB column , DB2 list the message 'DSNU124I Æ 286 09:07:08.23 DSNURFIT - AUX YES SPECIFICATION IS IGNORED AND AUX NO IS IN EFFECT FOR CURRENT UTILITY EXECU...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Reading CSV Files with Non-Delimiting Commas

The Var File Source node in Modeler is not able to detect commas within a comma-delimited file that are not delimiters. A comma within a single field would currently cause that field to be read as two fields, and distort all of the data beyond the...
about 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Saved file/attachment from a Report Studio report

Requirement is to retrieve/download physical file when we click on respective column from Report Studio report
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Gateway Server should be able to process batches concurrently.

The best TPS we got in gateway server was 150. Our largest file from a customer has around 600k transactions. With the current throughput from Gateway server it woulld take around 1 hour and 7 minutes to ingest those payments. As a result, we woul...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 1 Future consideration