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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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DB2 LUW: Intra-tablespace parallelism

Db2 V9.7 FP2: Intra-tablespace parallelism can reduce elapsed time for backups Starting in Version 9.7 Fix Pack 2, intra-tablespace parallelism was introduced and can be used during backups other than delta and incremental backups. Intra-tablespac...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2

Make adoption of forest-of-trees indices easier with existing large tables

Rebuilding an index as a FOT is not supported using "alter fragment on index init". This would be useful to avoid dropping and later re-adding primary keys and referencing foreign keys. Building a FOT index is not possible in parallel. Building a ...
over 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

DB2 LUW - Enhance Trusted Context

We use Trusted Context (TC) to allow connections into a database from IP's configured. However with the move to the cloud, it has become a challenge as the source IP's change dynamically with application restart. We need a TC mechanism to be able ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Do not display deleted reports in the "Recent Items" list.

Deleted reports should not be listed in the "Recent Items" list.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hide/Disable Print Report delivery option

Our standard users do not have ability to save report as a delivery option in Team Content. When running a report in background using Run As, the default delivery option is set to Print Report. We do not have print option configured for our users....
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Direct export to PowerPoint

Cognos does not provide a facility to directly extract to Microsoft PowerPoint.Using a PowerPoint “pull” method recommended by IBM would require double the maintenance overhead and also be problematic in other areas such as displaying image fi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

2 axes issue

Cognos will not display a primary Y axis in the foreground.The left Y axis is always shown behind the series of the right Y axis.Enclosed screenshot has details on the same
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Chart labels being too close to the markers

Chart labels being too close to the markers Note that sometimes the labels are not only too close but too far apart as well.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

NOT_LOGGED Database Export Node should be easier to set via scripting.

The NOT_LOGGED property of a Database Export Node cannot be set properly via scripting set until after a connection to a DB2 database is established. This mirrors the GUI experience where the check box for this setting does not appear until after ...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Create Jobs without write permission to the report

We have a enviroment with multiple tenants. Every tenant is a complete different customer. Alle customers have the same datasource (database) and also the same basic standard reports. All the standard/basic reports are administrated trough us (Cog...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration