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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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Pause Refresh

In Analysis there is a “Pause Refresh” button that is useful when building a report. This report stops the system from refreshing the data as you are busy making your field selection which saves time when building a report. Is there something ...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add feature on TFUI that would allow for a pop-up window that would let the user enter text.

In instances where a user would need to enter a lot of text, were asking for a pop-up to appear where it can be re-sized for the end user's preference.
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Ability to remove 'Send to printer' as a Delivery option

We would like the ability to remove the delivery option 'Send to printer' when running a report. We are upgrading to 11.1.5, and the 'Send to printer' is not removed upon removing the user's 'Printer' capability. Currently, removing this capabilit...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need TI functions to determine the number of hierarchies in a dimension and hierarchy name by index.

Currently, there are not TI functions to determine the number of hierarchies in a dimension and/or given an index the name of the hierarchy.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Allow creation "user named" hdfs files in Analytic Server

Although you can create Analytic Server Output that will write data in hdfs, it is generally creates a folder with the AS output name and a set of partition files inside it. On rerun, even if "overwrite" option is chosen on the AS Export node, new...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 0 Not under consideration

Show notes for Inspector obsolete records

Entity records tab does not display notes icon for obsolete records that have a note. See PMR 30848,756,000
almost 8 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically change IFL quantity assigned to an LPAR without restarting DB2

The IFL quantity assigned to an LPAR can be set to a certain number in the configuration screen but there is also an option to enter a number of ‘reserved’ IFLs. It was explained that the reserved amount would require restarting the internal Db2wh...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Optim support on open source Linux

We are limited to using RHEL for Optim installs on Linux. Supporting other Linux flavors such as Ubuntu, CentOS, or AlmaLinux is desirable to drive down support costs.
almost 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Remove limitation on tables with XMl column

Today there is some limitations on tables with XML column. For example, we can't alter the table with ALTER PARTITION partotion-clause for LIMITKEYS. This limit cause us to drop and recreate the table with a lot of data(xml) and for downtime. We a...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Provision to carry out DML activities

1. Grants_On_Table/View 2. GRANT_EXECUTE_PLAN 3. GRANT_EXECUTE_PROCEDURE 4. GRANT_USE_ON_TABLESPACE 5. Grant Sequence
almost 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration