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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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Option 12 panel (Change Capture Agent IP address) needs to allow for unplanned change of IP addresses

The current process for clients utilizing the Option 12 panel (Change Capture Agent IP address and TCP port for z/OS) requires that Replication be stopped in a controlled manner prior to updating the IP addresses. This process does not allow for d...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Detect corrupted synopsis tables online

There is a need to report all corrupted synopsis tables online. Currently, db2dart /crs can do it per table and it's done offline.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web support for non-stable networks

In this age of the pandemic, more people are working from home, and are thus connected via networks that are not 100% stable. In Controller Web you tend to get an error message if the websock communication is broken, and then you will have to relo...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Rename columns/fields in a dataset (11.0.4+)

When creating a dataset, you cannot rename the columns. This is what appears in the interface of dashboards for users.Need to be able to rename the fields to specific user requirements
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Modify CSV properities per report basis

We are IBM partner and our customer use Cognos to create reports and export CSV formats to other vendors. We have different vendor that have different limitations for CSV files. We need to be able to change this per report basis instead of just 1 ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Table level restore

To enhance functionality of ontape/onbar utility to enable table level restore.
about 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Expanding and collapsing a consolidated member in the Pafe Cube Viewer / Set Editor / Exploration view should always display all the children of the member

Please review the attached word doc, I don't seem to be able to post pictures here so it is a bit tough to explain the use case and detail. Currently if I expand a consolidation after previously hiding one of its children then the child remains hi...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set e-mail sensitivity label

This is a customer submitted question. Can sensitivity labels be applied to scheduled Costpoint BI reports or are there plans to do so in the future? For added security and protection.
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Restrict Burting Options per role/group/user: Run in parallel, Use query prefetching, Maximum key limit

Those using burst options can unintentionally take up all Cognos resources by enabling running bursted reports in parallel and setting the maximum key limit to 0. Administrators should have the ability to restrict these burst options from being se...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Not under consideration

Inclusion of Load Copy Images into the B/U image

DB2 includes the require logs but forgot about the load copy images required by roll forward to make the backup image complete for disaster recovery.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration