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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Allow to execute stored procedures from the Explore Objects list or RUN SQL

Application developers and DBAs execute stored procedures directly from Data Studio, Toad for DB2, DBeaver etc. interfaces but it is not possible in DB2 Admin Foundation therefore not very helpfull.
about 1 month ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Allow multiple hierarchies in the Measure dimension of a Planning Analytics (PA) cube to be used in Cognos Analytics

We have a Planning Analytics cube where the Income Statement Measure Dimension has more than one hierarchy. This works fine in a Planning Analytics Exploration and also in Planning Analytics for Excel, but it does not work in Cognos Analytics. In ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Under review

Please improve the quality of the grpahical output for Visual Explain.

Since Data Studio is now extinct the only way to generate a visual explain graphic is by using DB2 Admin Foundation or VS Code Developer Extension. Unfortunately, the quality of the graphical output for Visual Explain is like something from the 19...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Auto format of SQL statements before calling the various backend services like QWT etc.

Since the currently UMS ui SQL parser is not very reliable it would make more sense to always call the official Admin SQL formatter which is more mature/reliable rather than the UMS ui parser. This will ensure that the SQL is always valid before c...
10 days ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Smart Split Data Modeling

When selecting to split a date item, allow for the ability to select a start of year date (e.g. calendar 1/2/2025 vs other (e.g. fiscal year 10/1/2024). In addition, add options to allow for selecting quarter. Quarter would be generated as a numbe...
17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Provide a Zowe setting to suppress any prompting for a client certificate when accessing Zowe from a browser.

Today we have been forced to use as cumbersome unique set of AT-TLS rules to prevent a user from being prompted for a certificate so they don't select an invalid certificate causing connections to fail outright. We would like to eliminate as much ...
9 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Advanced Formatting Options Applied in Dashboards, Explorations, and Stories

In Data Modules you can format an item using advanced options such as patterns etc. I want to be able to apply patterns on dates in particular. It works fine in reporting but does not appear the same way in my dashboard. Per the documentation it s...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Datamodule doesn't support store procedures

By introducing the capability to import database stored procedures as parameterized query objects in the Data Module, you could streamline your workflow within Cognos and eliminate the need for additional Cognos Framework Manager installations. Th...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

add format SQL and separate query block functionality that was in Data Studio

format SQL especially helpful to aid tuning. Functionality provided in Data Studio but missing in UMS - these options we along side import DGTT DDL
3 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Produce explain Summary Report as was produced in Data Studio

In addition to the index, table, and predicate reports, Data Studio produced a Summary Report that we'd like to see produced
3 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted