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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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Allow Policy Author field to be multi-select

PCM module does not allow Policy Author field to be multi-select. If you change the display type of the field to multi-select, it will break the OOB Policy Unlock Helper, which is expecting the Author to be a single user when it determines if the ...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration

Insert spacings into list/table visualizations for readability

Our client requested the following functionality in PA Workspace: Insert empty Columns/Rows as placeholder for readability into exploration/list/table visualizations. We managed to insert some via basic calculations and formatting the respective ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have an option to include report run stats in the message when sharing the report

Have an option to include report run stats (e.g. when it was run, who ran it, what run parameter were used) in the message when sharing the report by email or by slack. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Slow database activate

DB activation is too slow because of lots of tablespace containers. My customer think so much time is spent to check or open all tablespace containers. Please consider design change for faster activation.
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Offline Documentation

I work on a private (for a reason) LAN, without internet access. Myself and other developers and DBAs used to be fine with using a slightly outdated version of the IBM DB2 Information Center, which we downloaded and put on servers inside the firew...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

strategic vision related to collaboration associated with Cognos generated report results

Customer would like to see a few statements that the Cognos 10 "Enable comments in saved output versions" features are deprecated. From APAR PH03454, the comments are "We have no plan to bring back the legacy comments feature into Cognos 11 versi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Single self-contained Windows DLL for .net5/6

With Oracle or Microsoft, we have the possibility to just reference one DLL to get full access to those RDBMS without driver installation. The latest Nuget packages are a nice addition, but publishing a project with VS releases the full clidriver ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Not under consideration

Synchorization using dynamic subset

We used dynamic subset to synchorize the graphs and TI procesess in our PAW books as this is the optimal solution for our 85 users as it allow them to know what cost centre they are using and automatically reduces the amount of cost centres needed...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

New Security capability to deny user access by selecting them from the namespace directory in external email

Type in external email capability Last Updated: 2021-11-24 A defect affecting the Type in external email capability is now fixed. Previously, a user who was denied the capability was still able to type in the email address of an external recipient...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Having counter the number of query failbacks

If a query failbacks to Db2 for z/OS, users would like count the number of failbacks and possibly the SQL Text itself. Today, SQL Query Monitors running for Db2 for z/OS can not differentiate the executed SQL's origin. For instance (1) SQL can be ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration