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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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Enhance Password Validation failed message to include source IP

Enhance online.log message DATETIME SERVERNAME DATETTIME Password Validation for user [USERNAME] failed! to include source ip address to make client indentification easier.
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Report from a Data Set

Customer needs the ability to use Reporting against Data Sets. Dashboarding is fine using a data set for high performance, but customer has needs for more control than what a Dashboard can deliver. Reporting against an aggregated Data Set is impor...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multiple SDU models per Collection

in my domain of business, clients put different kind and format of documents in the same collection. We need the possibility to have multiple SDU models in the same collection. Every SDU model get applied to a specific set of files identified by a...
over 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 3 Not under consideration

Avoid Reorg Abends by improving estimation of average row length

Today, for estimating the average row length being passed to sort, REORG gets that from catalog statistics with either AVGROWLEN or COMPRESSRATIO. The reason RTS stats is not used, is because RTS only contains the compressed data size.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Copy/Paste Reports (Deployment)

When deploying a report from one environment to another, using copy/paste to overwrite a report breaks report views and removes the schedule. Prior to Cognos 10.20 this never occurred. We'd like the old functionality back. A workaround currently e...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Modify the DSNJU003 utility to allow it to define anything stored in the Db2 BSDS

When creating and new Db2 member, we must bring it all the way up before we can create the bufferpools, size them, and set the thresholds. We would like the ability to defined them prior to starting the Db2 member/subsystem. When creating an alias...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel: "All leaves" item in Task Pane

It would be useful to have an "All leaves" item for each dimension in task pane, e. g. for the creation of lists.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to select dimension aliases in FM with PA native data source

We created a PA Data Source now using FM to test captions on measure dimensions. We found the ability to select different alias on different dimensions is no longer available. So now there is no control as to what alias we can include in the publi...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Disable Auto Scroll or Enable Freeze Pane in Workspace

Disable Auto Scroll or Enable Freeze Pane in Workspace
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

DSNX messages for IDAA need to be formated better for Auomation

When the IDAA pushes messages to the mainframe, the automation tool has a difficult time in parsing the messages. I even have a difficult time reading the messages as they can be split across multiple occurrences of DSNX881I messages with words br...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration