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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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Aggregate aware joins in FM

Hi for many years I have been hoping for a feature in framework manager to allow 'aggregate aware' joins in the model. This feature is in SAP IDT tool and let's you choose to substitute the join toto fact table based on aggregate level, e.g regula...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fully implement Cognos person namespace

Hi, in Cognos 11 the fast install includes an ldap and the admin gui works with this namespace to allow creating users etc. Please fully implement this as it's own install option and improve support for tenant features. Being able to manage users ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Schema's name should not be mandatory in Cube Designer just like in Framework Manager

We have different database schema's name in each environment such as DEV_Cognos, UAT_Cognos and PROD1_Cognos and Prod2_Cognos. In the cube designer, we have to define the schema's name otherwise an error will be returned. Therefore promoting from ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable API support to Refresh data from master to the application instance

This functionality is needed for us to achieve functional parity with zOSMF templates to enable integration with strategic IBM platforms like ICP and ICP for Data. Currently zOSMF templates allows Snapshot, Restore and Refresh capabilities for app...
about 5 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enable API support to create and manage Snapshots of application instances with data

This functionality is needed for us to achieve functional parity with zOSMF templates to enable integration with strategic IBM platforms like ICP and ICP for Data. Currently zOSMF templates allows Snapshot, Restore and Refresh capabilities for app...
about 5 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

reduce I/O activity to /etc/services upon each connect

Using filemon, we see 191 accesses to /etc/services for each Connect statement. It seems this file should only be accessed once or twice. This has been verified by IBM personnel with ticket TS001677150.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Finnish language

Finnish language as an example - we have build support for finnish and swedish language for Watson Explorer (oneWEX and AC Miner) using external language parser. There is guidelines available internally to IBM and BPs how to do it. We believe our ...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Planned for future release

Order Execution of Autonomic Actions by Object Size RFE 122603

Descriptionhttp://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=122603 All Autonomics actions with the same priority value to be executed by the Autonomics Director for DB2 need to be executed in ascending order of object size....
about 5 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Backport .NET Core API Support to Symphony 7.1.1

Some of our customers would like to use the Symphony .NET Core service API. The specific DLL they need is Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll.But it seems like the drivers exist only for Symphony 7.2.1.1, which is not the version we use currentl...
about 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Incorporate Query Monitor Style Capture Into Base Db2 Product

Incorporate Query Monitor-like data capture into base Db2 product. This would greatly improve the stability of DB2 itself and might provide IBM supported API to the tool vendors.
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration