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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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Enable sending individual messages from FTM Base to MER for printing ( pdf format), printing with a visible field description (printing ACKs and incoming messages)

Users can only save the .txt format without field description in Base , they need the ability to send the entire message (ACK with header) in pdf format in case of complaint and also incoming message with fields
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Enable message search by input and output sequence number ( ISN,OSN) and by message type, separate outgoing and incoming messages in the view

easier navigation and monitoring of messages, reducing the risk that some messages are not seen immediately
over 1 year ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Filter by measure

Assume a view where in rows we have a projectID dimension and in columns measure dimension. Measure dimension contains numeric and string elements. One of string measures is a picklist "Prjoject Manager". There is a need for a project manager to s...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable Comments in Saved Output Versions

Many of our Cognos 10 users used the enable comments in saved output version feature so they can capture their commentary with their reports. We would like to have a similar ability in CA 11 to view existing saved commentary when viewing a saved o...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

identify unit of work in insync replication

On the occasions when or replication latency grows beyond our comfort point, we want to know which unit or units of work are driving that latency. We want to know this so that we can either cancel that unit of work or perhaps temporarily drop that...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

REBUILD INDEX utility enhancement

Enhance the REBUILD INDEX SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility to create a shadow copy of the index, then switch it over on completion.
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW Allow Online (Mostly) Index Creation

Hello IBM, Currently whenever we create an index on a table we see significant number of lock timeouts for the applications. We are running a pureScale cluster and not able to create Indexes ONLINE. Pain points: We use DB2 LUW pureScale...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 3 Not under consideration

INSTANCE_MEMORY AUTOMATIC should be automatic, not calculated

The default value of the INSTANCE_MEMORY parameter is AUTOMATIC. The AUTOMATIC setting results in a value that is computed at database partition activation. This behavior is inflexible regarding dynamic memory changes e.g. for AIX LPARs. Today it ...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Ability to include calculations in navigation paths even if they are not part of a table

Sometimes dashboard authors would like to create a navigation path that includes a calculation that is not within a table. This is necessary when there is logic within the calculation that uses data from 2 or more tables. As a workaround, you can ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Change/Specify Name of Field in Legend

Lack of customization in RAVE visualizations is a major impediment to adoption. Need the ability to customize the field names within the legend in all of the different visualization templates.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration