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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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DSC comment support

Currently the DSC only supports /* */ style starting comments. The "normal" -- style causes the SQL to never be cached! This is naturally very bad as loads of JAVA coders start their SQL with a -- comment to internally document the SQL code. This ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

User Logon/off log records to identify mode of access (client, excel-linked, web)

when Administrator reviews user log on records, there can be multiple logon and logoff records around the same time when user log in to application and excel link. But Administrator is unable to identify which record is for which mode of access. W...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Child prompts does not get auto selected.

child prompts are not auto selected when its respective parent is selected.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SETNET32 automatically maintain the SQLHOSTS file

Behaviour in SDK 4.1Fc1 and TC1 is changed . In previous version of windows SDK connectivity details were taken from registry ( setnet32 updates registry) but in SDK 4.10 Fc1/TC1 there is need to setup sqlhosts file apart from setting setnet32 . W...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Disable "Automatic Group and Summery behavior for List"

Currently in the report development tool, this annoying feature is enabled by default. It can be disabled on report by report bases by going to /ellipsis/option/Report and un-checking this option. Please disable this feature by default or give us...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Company status not changing to processing after a journal upload

Company status not changing to “processing” after a journal upload (because General setting is set as reconcile in REPO) – When using the journal upload functionality the system should behaves like when doing a posting directly in Controller...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Increase the default height of the description field to 10-15 lines

The description field is an attribute from reports, folders, ... which is displayed in the properties of the object in the Cognos portal. It has a relatively small height and only 2.5 lines can be shown at once. The field height cannot be increase...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Functionality already exists

Traffic light Status Icon in circle shape

Could you please help us to get the Traffic light status icons only as circle shape for all color green, red, yellow . Currently we have traffic light status as Green icon in Circle shape, Red icon as square shape, Yellow icon as diamond shape. Pl...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Change DSNHDECP from being hard coded

Db2 Admin has the name DSNHDECP hard coded into the product and this may cause problems for MetLife – they had the same problem with Optim products and had to get it changed. So the change need is to make the naming of DSNHDECP a variable at insta...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

Management Console Performance Metrics Graph Viewing - display metrics for selected point in time in the graph

When viewing the performance metrics graphs, it would be very helpful if when you use the mouse to point to a specific point in time on a line in the graph, that a box display which shows the values for that specific point in time for the metric r...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration