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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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Reduce locking on XML-auxiliary tables

Locking on XML auxiliary tables can be very CPU cost intensive and can lead to problems with the threshold LOCKS PER USER.Tune DB2s locking algorithms so that locking on XML-auxiliary tableswill be reduced.
about 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Add Two or More of Same Table to Data Module

There are times when we need to add the same table more than once to a Data Module. For instance, we might have a fact table with order date and ship date. This would need two date dimensions to join on each date.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lists, crosstabs, charts, tables resize with mouse

It would be muche easer to create reports if we could change size of objects by using just mouse (no property settings by entering high and wight).We can do this with Visualizations but for some reason this does not work with other objects (tables...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reload View button in Cube Viewer

In Cube Viewer, add the button called "Reload View" as found in Architect\Perspectives. This is helpful when a user drags dimensions around so they can return to the original state of the view.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

remove all world writable permissions on files and directorys see also 79173

Our Security does not want to see files and directorys which have the world writeable permission set se also fea 79173 PMR is case TS000140222
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Job queue visible to any Author with access to the Job/Report

At our university, each department has its own reporting team, and they are responsible for scheduling their own jobs and reports. However, Cognos only allows a developer to see the reports that they themselves scheduled -- not the entire departme...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Currently locking is available by period and by company, and not by consolidation type

In a multi consolidation type/multi group scenario implementation it is possible that due to human error a consolidation is run for a consolidation type/Group even though the numbers for that group have been finalised and as a result of this conso...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Feature to add columns to custom tables created as copy from an existing table.

If in a Data Module a copy of table is created by using custom tables, there is no way to add new columns to it. The only workaround is to create a new copy, but this is often unfeasible because all changes are lost, the relationships need to be r...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add advanced filtereditor from frameworkmanager to a dashboard or datamodule

Add advanced filtereditor from frameworkmanager to a dashboard or datamodule
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set filter - case insensitive

When working with filter set and choosing a filter with caption or attribute. The filter is case sensitive. I would like it to be case insensitive
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration