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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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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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Use report package drill-through in dashboard

Working within Dashboard and creating a crosstab or chart, using as source packages where drill-through reports are set up, those drill-through reports are not visible at all. To take advantage in Dashboard of the investments made in reporting, co...
2 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Add option to add comment on database and query the comment with SQL

Hello,I can add comment on table, comment on column and comments on many more objects, but it seems difficult to add comment on database and impossible to query it. Current work-around is to add comment on database at DBA level. I can SSH to Linux...
about 6 hours ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Timestamp on output file name should show same as server timestamp as it currently show UTC.

When user downloaded scheduled report, Incorrect timestamp shows (GMT timestamp) on saved report name. This is leading to confusion for end users as these reports are used for their timely analysis.
about 21 hours ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support SQL function to unnest JSON data from arrays

Db2 has native JSON data support. It features functions like JSON_QUERY, JSON_TABLE, and others. However, it is not easy to unnest JSON data stored in arrays. This is required to map nested JSON data to table format. Some other vendors has this ca...
2 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Enable Per-Namespace Logout URL Configuration with id_token_hint

We request the enhancement of IBM Cognos Analytics to support namespace-specific Logout URLs, rather than the current limitation of a single, global logout redirect. In environments utilizing multiple authentication namespaces (e.g., a mix of SAML...
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Scriptable Reports: Support headers, footers, and group spanning when using the setColumnDisplay() method.

Currently this method doesn't work for custom controls when the list has a header, footer, or group spanned rows. That makes this function/method almost useless when the report has the on demand toolbar enabled. Users that try to aggregate or grou...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted
699 VOTE

More Properties/Editing options for Rave 2 Visualizations

We would like more properties/editing options implemented into the new Rave 2 Visualizations (custom palettes specifically). Also would like to have the ability to add conditional formatting or a conditional palette to a visualization.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

SYSPROC.ENV_GET_SYSTEM_RESOURCES table function should be updated to report Available Memory.

Proposed Enhancement Description (DB2 Virtual Memory usage calculation) DB2 currently calculates VIRTUAL_MEM_IN_USE using the following query: SELECT MEMBER, MEMORY_SWAP_TOTAL, MEMORY_SWAP_FREE, MEMORY_TOTAL, MEMORY_FREE, CAST(( CASE WHEN (MEMORY_...
6 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Create TABLESPACE IF NOT EXISTS

Some objects in Db2 LUW can use the IF NOT EXISTS in a CREATE (or IF EXISTS in a DROP), e.g. for TABLE. But the option is not available for Tablespaces. I believe it is available in other RDMS products e.g. SQL Server. Could the option be extended...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review
608 VOTE

Export Dashboard to PPT/Excel

It would be great if we would have the function (export Dashboard to PPT / Excel). We are having a lot of reviews with the Executives and most of time we are combining charts (e.g. some from Ops and some from other Finance team) into 1 deck, so wi...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 9 Not under consideration