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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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Full support for aggregate function with DISTINCT in OLAP SPECIFICATION

Use of DISTINCT with e.g. COUNT function in OLAP specification (PARTITION BY clause) returns error SQL0441N (SQLCODE -441). Due to the fact that Db2 does NOT support the use of DISTINCT option in such cases, we have a major impact with COGNOS gene...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Calculations -- FOR Loops

Calculations often require a long list of 'if/elif/else' statements (sometimes over 100 of them) to account for a lot of management of lists and larger inputs. Adding a For loop would significantly reduce the complexity and maintenance of large ca...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Future consideration

Re-order Dimensions on a Cube via a Turbo Integrator Function

We have systemised approaches to building cubes and dimensions within Planning Analytics, this includes automatically building cubes from source systems and adding dimensions to cube after they have been built. Unfortunately when rebuilding these ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

JDBC gateway managment and installation improvements

We have segregation of duties in our environment and very strict use of super user authority. Who install the product, install it using a specific RACF group. The start/stop of the JDBC process will be given by the userid of the automation tool, o...

Addition of Column Reordering Feature in IBM Data Refinery

As a user of IBM Data Refinery, I appreciate the platform's robust capabilities for data preparation and cleansing. However, I have identified a significant functionality gap that I believe could greatly enhance the user experience and productivit...
6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data as a Service 0 Submitted

Cognos 11 - Email Attachment Restriction

Requesting the ability to lock down a user or group's ability to send reports as attachments in email form. This functionality was available by adding a "CC_RUN_OPTIONS_email_attachment" "ui_hide" parameter value in the system.xml file (under "{in...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Turn on reclaimable storage without dropping/recreating the tablespaces

After a migration from db2 9.5 to 10.1, several days passed, and we reached the maximum size of a DMS tablespace of 4K. We moved one table to a different tablespace, but still noticed that the free pages were equal to 0. We tried to execute the al...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Future consideration

Onaudit add events at the statement level for object read/write

To efficiently audit table/index access - audit at the statement level.
5 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted
108 VOTE

Obtain the query plan of a running query

Many times a DBA is called to check upon a slow process. Most of the times those processes are running a slow query.Sometimes it's hard to know if the query is using the best query plan or not. A DBA can reproduce the query, but it it was prepared...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0

Export/Import from JDBC gateway file location

From JDBC gateway administrative console Selecting file > export The export of the Personal Data Sources has a pre-defined path (on server) that is not changeable and indicates the installation path by default. While the export of Repositories ...