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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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Redirected Recovery - make REPAIR CATALOG a part of the Redirected Recovery processing

the REPAIR CATALOG on target tablespaces is a must complete step before the data is accessed or indexes rebuilt on the data. If we always need to do this then can this step be included, maybe as a REPAIR CATALOG phase, to the redirected recovery p...
8 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

JDBC Connection configuration of the JDBC Gateway via Wizard

The customer would be more facilitated through Wizards, which would help him direct the valorization of any parameters such as (TrustStorePath, and TrustStorePassword) to a specialist, based on guided examples that make it clear what he wants to a...
about 2 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Under review

To notify user before timeout

Right now when timeout is happening, TM1Web would just become irresponsive, or a new action would then cause a timeout error, however, unlike other product or website, it prompts to user and ask if the user want to continue working or not.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Switch the "IBM Data Server Client" over to an MSI installer for Windows machines

Currently the installer uses an ancient InstallShield installer that is a nightmare to roll out. It would be nice if it could be transitioned over to an MSI installer because those are easier to uninstall and roll out.
10 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review

Optional Date Prompt Check Box should be Unchecked by default

The optional behaviour of the date prompt is different to every other cognos prompt. it is even different to the date prompt when it is used in Range mode! When a date prompt is made optional, a check box appears to show if it should or should not...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY The DB2 redirected recovery functionality allows RECOVER utility to be used to redirect the recovery of an object (the source) to another object (the target). The source and target objec...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 5 Future consideration

Baselines and Trendlines on the Cognos Visualizations

We need baselines and trendlines in Report Studio visualizations but they are not available
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Planned for future release
107 VOTE

Ability to make join queries on different packages in RA

Ability to make join queries on different packages in RA
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Suppression of validation check messages

Need the ability to suppress validation checks and only display custom validation messages in production environments. Currently when a validation fails all validation check messages are displayed on the screen as well as the custom validation mes...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted