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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.

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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Enable Drillthroughs from PDF Files opened in Acrobat Reader

For security reasons, our users are not allowed to open PDF files inline in their browser. Instead, these files always opened externally in Acrobat Reader. However, drillthroughs are not possible from there: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/lin...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Improve/enhance conditional formatting experience

It would be great if conditional formatting is made easy. It's not an intuitive experience even for some other vendors.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Searching catalog should provide option to filter asset properties to search

Currently, catalog search looks for matching keywords in these asset properties: Tags Name Description Terms Column names If catalog search retunes hundreds of items from different assets properties, it's very difficult to find the right items. Se...
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

TCP/IP SERVICES AVAILABLE for SECPORT

Startup messages when DB2 is brought up will display the status of the standard DRDA DDF port via the DSNL519I message:DSNL519I -DXXX DSNLILNR TCP/IP SERVICES AVAILABLE 567 FOR DOMAIN domain.com AND PORT 999. DB2 does not display an equivalent mes...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Dynamic Statement Cache should have information from the field ClientInfo

We use JPA to generate Dynamic SQL in Db2 z/OS. The application ID i sent in the field ClientInfo which helps us to identify the processing. SMF records, Omegamon, Query Monitor and other products contain this information, but not the Dynamic Stat...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Delivered

Detect corrupted pointers in the free chain and avoid referencing them

We are currently using a USERMOD which detects corrupted pointers in the free chain before referencing them and, if detected, automatically truncates the free chain to avoid referencing bad addresses. If this can be generalized and implemented wit...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Delivered

HPU should has issued LOCK TABLE statement in SQL mode.

Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS V5.1 documentation says that when we specify LOCK YES, the table can be accessed only in read-onlymode. But according to PMR: 00483,6V5,760, HPU can not issue LOCK TABLE in the case of SQL mode. <>Db2 Hig...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 0 Delivered

Buttons in PAW - add tab refreshing after using the button

I have multiple cases where buttons could be very useful but the most problematic thing is that the interface IS NOT refreshing the sheet/tab content after hitting the button. I'd expect to have the visible views refreshed after running the TI pro...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Ability to visually overlap/embed targets with current performance data in CA Dashboarding

Ability to visually overlap/embed targets with current performance data in Cognos Analytics Dashboarding. We would like to set visual 'markers' for targets/goals or 'pace to goal' that are embedded within a visual component (e.g. bar graph)
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

IDAA V7 - Insync - limit number of updates/inserts/deletes in one transaction

Some application areas do the mass updates with one commit causing replication (InSync) to fail for the Db2 Subsystem.
about 3 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 4 Delivered