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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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Allow RESTORE TO FUTURE POINT WITHOUT HAVING THE INCREMENTAL/DELTA AVAILABLE

We would very much appreciate the ability to RESTORE existing databases into a new database via a FULL ONLINE backup and SUBSEQUENTLY APPLY AN INCREMENTAL.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Remove entries in the archived report tab that have been deleted from the external repository.

Reports that were deleted form Filenet P8 still display in the the Cognos content store. The date and time the deleted report were run are still viewable from the archived report portal, though an output is not available.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Handling unsupported characters

Suppose an application tries to insert a character that is not supported by DB_LOCALE. Then instead of throwing an error, a pre-defined character (e.g. an inverted question mark "¿") should be inserted.
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Improve messaging surrounding the +20272 SQL warning in cases of a -904

A DBA was running an ALTER NOT CLUSTER. The ALTER should have converted the tablespace to table-controlled partitioning, but it encountered a -904. I have copied the output to "additional details". In the SPUFI output, after the -904, the ALTER di...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Deletion of Item/attribute in Commerce via OOTB ACM

Category and Items loaded as a part of ACM data model, do not have any notation for purging. Current OOTB ACM do not support such purging to flow to WCS over ACM. This applies to both Items in the catalog and the attributes in the Attribute Dictio...
over 5 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Add File deletion policy

Add File deletion policy , so that after a certain time (7 years) , the system will auto delete the files.
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Enable all the method types of Rest APIs instead of limiting the usage to PUT.

Currently in Nordea, we are looking for options where our consumers can directly interact with MDM services through rest apis instead of an intermediate service which eventually increase performance and save the effort for managing multiple compon...
almost 3 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

Global support for shortcuts in CA

We would like to have a global support for shortcuts in CA as in other modern BI/Analytics tools to speed up the work in CA interfaces. It would be appreaciated for dev in reporting as well as for users in interfaces on the most commont actions/bu...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Cognos Workspace Tab and Widget movement flexibility

When utilizing a Cognos Workspace for building dashboards there should be more flexibility to adjust and organize the functionality of objects. Tabs and all the widgets should be center aligned. The widget refresh icon should be in center of the s...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

request for functional enhancement to add special characters support for trigger.bat/sh

My company requirements for passwords are the one letter needs to be capitalized, one number needs to be used and one special character needs to be used. Unfortunately using alphanumeric password for trigger.bat script would be required in current...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration