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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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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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Add lock wait time to oncheck

If oncheck encounters a row/table is locked it immeditely returns error: ERROR: Could not obtain lock for <database>:<user>.<table> It would be useful to have an option for user to select lock wait time for example: oncheck -cDI ...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

Need of headers in excel export from PAW view

When exporting to excel from a cube view in PAW you can see what settings you have in the dimensions acting as filters. But you can't see what dimensions displayed in the rows. This becomes a problem specifically when nesting several dimensions.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Ability to Enrich Nested and Arrays of JSON

Data input often comes in more complicated forms than a flat JSON list, would be very useful for Discovery to be able to enrich this without customer pre-preprocessing.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Delivered

Limit the number of tape drives allocated when using a TEMPLATE with STACK NO specified

In our reorg utilities against lobs using inline image copy it is required to use STACK NO, however, since we image copy to tape it causes the DB2 utility to acquire multiple tape drive units all at once for each partition of a UTS. This is an iss...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Delivered

Using Virtual Dimensions in Dynamic Report in PAfE

In order to enhance reporting, PAfE will be part of our journey until PAW has a workable alternative. Having the ability to report on virtual dimensions, makes the flexibility and timeous turnaround of changes to reporting dimensions fast and viab...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Java 11 support for Spectrum Symphony

Application teams looking for Enterprise mandatory requirements JAVA11 Request for Enhancement reference case - TS010011243
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Delivered

Enable Options to attach supporting in Journals

There is no option to attach backups for Cognos journal. Enable option to attach documents.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Delivered

Enhance scheduling of shared GPU jobs to pack jobs on to GPUs

Enhance scheduling of shared GPU jobs to pack jobs on to GPUs
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Please bring back select/unselect check box

In earlier cognos releases prior to 11, we could select/unselect entries using check box, so I could select all entries by just one click. There is no way to do it in Cognos 11, making it extremely difficult and time consuming to select items.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

turn off intent

Currently, if we have "seasonal" intents, we have to pull them out and save them somewhere. There is no way to turn them off at certain times of the year. It would be helpful to have an on/off switch for intents. Better yet would be a means to hav...
almost 3 years ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Delivered