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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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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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

Allow search results returned by a full text search to be configurable

Allow the search results returned by a full text search done by the magnifying glass at the top of the screen to be configurable so that as well as displaying the 'Primary id', it can also display other columns which are useful in identifying the ...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Functionality already exists

Query Monitor CAE GUI - Add ability to Alert on -904 Resource Unavailable but exclude instances for specific reason codes

QM and CAE have been set up to use the ALERT feature for DB2 SQL error -904 with an email response. Please provide a solution on how to configure the email RESPONSE to NOT send the email if it is for a specific reason code 00C900D1 (Explanation: T...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Fall back to previous IC if latest IC needed is unusable

The Db2 RECOVER utility falls back to a previous image copy if it finds a needed image copy unusable. This is also true if a recovery plan in Db2 Recovery Expert uses the Db2 RECOVER utility. However, if Db2 Recovery Expert uses a recovery plan th...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Recovery Expert for z/OS 0 Functionality already exists

PAW Selector Widget as dropdown

A selector widget PAW is only shown as a flat list. It would be helpful to show it as a Dropdown like a subnm in Excel.
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Creation and administration of Applications an Plans for non-admin users

Due to our environment there are very restrictive administrator rights. For changes in an existing application no matter how big it is, we have to create a ticket by the PAW Administrators. It would be very helpful if a PAW Modeller can manage Pla...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Generic Error Message for Failed Authenticaion

Hi, I would like to know if you could change the error message comes from DB2 for z/OS via IBM Client Driver when a wrong user name or password is given. In this current situation we get two types of error messages one states that USER DISABLED/R...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Delete Virtual Table Using IAAdmin Command

Currently there is no way to delete a virtual table using the IAAdmin command or any other IIS API. This is particularly important when we refresh monthly data Virtual Tables to use them as the source for Data Rules / Column Analysis in Production...
almost 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Automatically detect and uncompress NX842 compressed files in LOGPATH, OVERFLOWLOGPATH, etc.

Sometimes when after databases using a redirected restore from an online backup or db2inidb from a flash copy we are requested to copy log files from source directly into the target LOGPATH or OVERFLOWLOGPATH so that a roll forward can successfull...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Compression 1 Functionality already exists

Option to hide tabs/menus with embedded PAW workbooks

Planning Analytics Workspace 2.0.60 introduced the embed parameter, allowing workspace workbooks to be embedded inside an iframe. Using path: http[s]://<pawhost>[:<pawport>]/?perspecitve=dashboard&path=/shared/mybook&embed=true...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists