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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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Enable cell merge in crosstabs imported into Word

When a crosstab is imported into Microsoft Word, special cell-based border styles are not recognized. IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office respects the formatting style defined for the first cell in the table and applies this style to the entire report.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve CREATE SCHEMA AUTHORIZATION statement to allow encapsulation of any DDL command

Currently CREATE SCHEMA AUTHORIZATION can be used to encapsulate some DDL statements (see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSGU8G_12.1.0/com.ibm.sqls.doc/ids_sqs_0483.htm) We would like this to be expanded to include other DDL statem...
almost 7 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Update multiple quick report connection strings

Need a way to quickly update multiple quick report connection stings at once. Update the current utility to allow multi select files, or select a directory (similar to action button migration) OR allow connection strings to be stored in a cell. 1 ...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

AT-TLS support for IDAA

We would like to use SSL/TLS for encrypting data transfers between the Mainframe and the IDAA appliance. IPsec is not currently an option for us due to it's requirement of IKEDv2 and NSSD. It would be costly for us to implement this solution.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support additional single-byte encodings for column-organized tables

The latest updates to DB2 have added the support of codepage 809 (ISO8859-1) for databases using column-organized tables..This is good for many Western customers, who are able to avoid switching to Unicode (and paying the penalty of 2x or 3x chara...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Not under consideration

Table partitioning for column-organized tables

Column-organized tables are currently not supported for table partitioning (e.g. PARTITION BY RANGE)..At the same time, table partitioning is used by many data warehouse customers to speed up ETL activities - e.g.:(a) load new data into a separate...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Future consideration

MSI for PAX install

With PAX being a new product and new versions (with fixes) coming regularly, we request the PAX install for Excel comes as an MSI
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Provide basic Set of Utilities required to work with Cognos Analytics

IBM provided a host of Tools like Dispatcher Diagnostic tool, CM Tools, JGetInfo, LogViewerV2 among others directly as a download for customers or in the product. Currently some of these Tools are no longer available. For others you have to contac...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

LSF Session scheduler support on linux-aarch64

We are using LSF 10.1 session scheduler on our linux-x86_64 compute nodes, and wish to also use the session scheduler on our linux-aarch64 nodes, but it seems to not be available yet ? Can we please request the session scheduler is ported to the l...
almost 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Chart Legend thickness

We have a requirement to increase the width of the chart legend lines' thickness. If there are more lines, especially if the report is printed on paper it's impossible to differentiate between the colors, as the representative lines on the legend ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration