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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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Need to support inplace reorg on partitioned table with global indexes

This is critical in a 2 sense; 1) Performance The customer has many range-partitioned table with global indexes and most of them left unreorganized because INPLACE REORG on Inplace reorg on range-partitioned table with a global index is not suppor...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration

Conditional automatic journals to post values on different from REPO journal types

When using conditional automatic journals, it is not possible to re-direct postings to a different journal type then REPO, even if puting it on "Journal type" field, on control table. Even if filtering Trial Balance to show only REPO/BASE, automat...
6 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 8 Needs more information

Add SQL-statement COMMENT ON as in Oracle or PostgreSQL

For some tables or columns it would be helpful to describe what the table/column is used for since the names are not always self-explanatory. Although COMMENT ON is not part of standard SQL it would be helpful to have such a statement. The DOCUMEN...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 6 Future consideration

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Select color coding

Need the ability to set colors for specific data items consistently from tile to tile.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Remove dependency on Trident Engine (IE/mshtml.dll) for IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office (Go Office)

Currently, the IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office (Go Office) continues to use Trident (IE/mshtml.dll) for authentication. For certain OIDC SSO setups, the use of Trident is causing incompatibility issues (such as Trident/IE being unable to handle ad...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Have the possibility to control the time range for the DSODB Dashboard.

Currently, we do not have any variable that can be set to control the DSODB Dashboard time range. The only existing way, is to manually update the value (3 times for the dashboard...), and this modification is only persisting for the session's coo...
11 months ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to have online messages to detail why go-lives are in queue and pending processing.

Product and Tech support teams would have more visibility with understanding why a go-live is in queue. Specifically, support staff would be able to differentiate deadlock vs BAU processing situations. This would assist staff with determining if a...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Future consideration

Create new SQL-VIEW to show ALL GRANTS

Today we have a useful sql-view named SYSIBMADM.PRIVILEGES that aggregates in a consistent and easy way to query all different types of privileges that are currently granted to an authid. This is very useful. But we lack some other stuff like info...
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 0 Future consideration

Add support for data retention for OpenPages

EU financial regulators now have stringent requirements around data retention and other regulators elsewhere are likely to follow soon. Such data retention requirements specify that certain customer/seller data must be deleted after a period of ti...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Under review