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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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In IDA, provide "Space Evenly" buttons along with the "Align" buttons

When creating a diagram, it is common to have groups of symbols that need to be arranged evenly, so that the spacing is consistent between the symbols. Currently there is no way to do that automatically, requiring the user to attempt to do that by...
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

In IDA, make the "Align" buttons on the toolbar work as expected

I have 5 symbols selected that are randomly on the diagram. I click the "Align Top". The symbols move, but some of them move down. The expectation is that they would align to the top of the top most symbol. If I click "Align Left", again the expec...
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

In IDA, need to keep the selection of graphic symbols when moving

If I select many symbols in the IDA diagram, then move them, the selection is immediately removed from the set after I release the mouse or keyboard, and only remains on one of the symbols. This makes it difficult to get precise positioning of sym...
about 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Import a DataStage job into a different environment on a different server (Git integration)

Currently, the script dfdGitCli.sh doesn't allow a job to be imported into a slightly different project name on a different server, e.g. from project_dev on erads11.ci.datastage.com to project_tst on erads12.ci.datastage.com. Given that our work f...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

Informix HQ Enhancement

We are checking if we can use Informix HQ for our Production system. We have noticed Informix HQ doesn't have AD integration on it. There's not much auditing /logging on what has changed on the Informix HQ.
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Workspace: Add justification options to widget titles

We can add titles to widgets (slider and select value filters), but the titles are only left justified. Add ability to choose left, center, or right justification
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

[Installation and Upgrade] Install - Package - Run egosh/soamview on non cluster hosts

We would like to run tools such as soamview and egosh on hosts that are not members of the cluster in order to administer them remotely.
about 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

Transform relational data in a JSON document

Add a feature to transform the relational data in a JSON document. Maybe something simplest than xquery should be developed. For example, hierarchy in a JSON document matches with the relational dependencies (parent - dependent - dependent ) . So ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / NoSQL 0 Not under consideration

Persona UI – Require ability to control order of Tabs for all Users

We require ability to control and set order of all the tabs (Standard + Custom), for all the users. Today you can control the order of only standard tabs in the View (catalog or step). All the custom tabs by default are added to the end. We would ...
about 3 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

content store not using bind variables causing system issues.

This is to avoid hard parsing that causes performance degradation and un-necessary shared pool usage. Please see in the attached spreadsheet, there are 230 SQL statements that are originated for the cognos content store schema. Any application not...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration