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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Ability to Schedule reports during Certain Days of Month

We were looking for a ability to schedule the reports within a range of a month, like 1st to 10th of each month. Currently in Scheduling options we have either to run 1st day or 2nd day of the month, but could not specify range.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support adding a bulk list of values to Data Class.

Support adding a bulk list of values to Data Class. Right now, adding a list of values to Data Classes is cumbersome and difficult through the UI. It's a very small window and you have to do it one by one and does not have copy/paste option, it's ...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Make EDIT button behaving consistently throughout UI

Make EDIT button behaving consistently throughout UI. Currently at some page, EDIT button could only perform DELETE, e.g. 1. Go to Business Term artifact option 2. On the Right Hand side you will EDIT button ,click on Edit 3. Edit enables checkbox...
almost 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Is a defect

Support for floating point "DECfloat" data types in DQM so floatingvalues not being rounded to a Double datatype in Cognos BI

Support for floating point "DECfloat" data types in DQM so floatingvalues not being rounded to a Double datatype************************************************************* The IEEE Standard IEEE 754-2008 (previously called IEEE 754r) for binary ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Browse archived DDL

Extend browse archive file utility to browse archived DDL (tables, indexes, views, stored procedures).
almost 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

DB2 to incorporate a feature equivalent to Oracles Flashback(RIMS)

We have an official request from executive management ((John Mikkelsen) for DB2 to incorporate a feature equivalent to Oracles Flashback. Eric Egdorf DB2 LUW Support Verizon Business 719-535-4289 Verizon recently had an outage that they feel coul...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 1 Not under consideration

IDS 12.10 syspurge enhancement

Description: We are experiencing locking errors during IBM Informix Dynamic Server syspurge causing a failure to complete syspurge specifically with tables using interval fragmentation. We understand that currently IBM cannot guarantee that there...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace: SUBNM formulas do not refresh in Websheets when cells are hidden

Complex Websheets require multiple references and not all have to be visible.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Report- Default sorting for date fields

Today, in report, users have to click on the ascending or descending sort option to sort the date field values.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Transparent content manager switch

Today when a content manager switch to standby (as failover or when activating manually by admin team), the switch is not transparent towards users. The active sessions are kept but all ongoing report/report view/job exeuctions are failing. We wou...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration