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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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Ignore opening balances on import

Many customers copy opening balances forward then load trial balances which contain opening balances. To avoid overwriting the copied forward OBs a separate form excluding OBs has to be used in the delete tab of the import specification. This dupl...
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Add Turkish to Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech services

According to Wikipedia Turkish is the 13th most spoken language in the world. It'd be very helpful to add Turkish to the Speech services since it is also often required in some client engagements!
over 1 year ago in Speech Services 4 Not under consideration

Review automatic prefetch

This IDEA it to request a more dynamic management of PREFETCHSIZE when it is set to AUTOMATIC. The documentation states: "The database updates the prefetch size automatically whenever the number of containers in a table space changes (following su...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Workload Management 2 Not under consideration

Asymmetrical Views on Drill Through

Drill through only support traditional views. Can the functionality be expanded to include MDX views in the ReturnViewHandle?
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Future consideration

Retain Existing Workbook Permissions on Deployment

Presently, existing workbooks must be replaced when using the deployment process to transfer from one environment to another. This method only allows for the inheritance of the parent folder's permissions or permission retention of the user perfor...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Turn off change password parameter within PASS tm1web_config.xml

When using native PA security (integrated mode 1) there are occasions where we need to remove the ability for user to check the "Change Password" box, due to the organisations password complexity requirements. Due to domain issues we cannot run ac...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

REBIND allocated plan

Before going to Db2 13 we have to rebind some plans that were last bound in Db2 10. We have also previously got the recommendation to rebind all plans when we have migrated to a new Db2 version. We have a problem with plans that are always allocat...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Reference to the BSDS for example the full image copies of the CATALOG and DIRECTORY DB2 tablespaces which are not in SYSCOPY

There are several (4 in DB2 v12) catalog and directory tablespaces for which the full image copies are not referenced in the SYSCOPY.Thus, during a DB2 cat/dir recovery (recovery exercise or other...) these FICs are searched directly in the DB2 lo...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration
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Method for downgrading FixPack level of Db2 pureScale

In order to downgrade FP level of pureScale, uninstall the product, re-install and recovery from backup are needed.This is time consuming and cannot be done online.Customer want some easy FP fallback method.Most customer plan to FP upgrade with so...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Not under consideration

Db2 TOTAL_CPU_TIME monitoring metric on AIX should reflect "wall" CPU time and not use PURR-scaled time reported currently by thread_cputime AIX API

Db2 monitoring interfaces report "CPU time" metric (TOTAL_CPU_TIME), which accounts the time that given activity/request (and all higher level aggregated interfaces) spent actively "on CPU" whilst executing the query. On AIX this information is ob...
10 months ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration