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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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Hide Aggregation Type On Charts

Hi Team, On the cognos dashboard 11.2.4 version, there is a scenario where it is necessary to hide the aggregate type of fields on the charts, which appear as tooltips when you hover over the charts in brackets. The additional data from aggregatio...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

db2prereqcheck on AIX should detect presence of a soft link for /usr/bin/python3 as it is required by some pureScale cluster components

db2prereqcheck contains code to check the presence of python3. This is required for pureScale (GPFS in particular). However, if the softlink in /usr/bin/python3 is missing, when upgrading from Db2 11.5.8 to 11.5.9, db2prereqcheck doesn't log any m...
23 days ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Submitted

watsonx.data SaaS bucket activation - move this permission to User role from Admin role

For our testing around multi-tenant watsonx.data, for the most part we want users to be able to bring their own data sources (buckets and databases), and simply use the other resources of watsonx.data on IBM Cloud without direct management. Hence,...
23 days ago in watsonx.data 0 Under review

Manage APIs as assets in the catalog

The customer is managing its own proprietary repository of apis to various systems and databases. The content of the repository is a set of YAML files and JSON files. Those files contain metadata (I will upload to the case a sample yaml file) . Th...
23 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Remove some of the restrictions related to SQLCODE -20555

There is currently a restriction on the use of archive-enabled tables and temporal tables in one statement: The execution of this statement leads to SQLCODE -20555: SELECT * FROM DB2.LZTB0586 WHERE VNR IN ( SELECT VNR FROM DB2.LZTB0520) SQLERROR O...
23 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

StartupChores in V12

StartupChores is not accessible in V12. Update the instance configuration interface to allow the setup of StartupChores parameter in V12. As of 20/05/2024 the documentation mentions this parameter is not part of the deprecated functions but unfort...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 1

Bring "Notes" information in column details

Bring "Notes" information in column details for a column imported from a physical data model.
7 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

Include CTQ reason / details in db2exfmt advanced diagnostics

We need an "Extended Diagnostic Information" in Explain (db2exfmt) that details if and why the column organized tables had been (early) converted to the row format for processing it in the row engine. This is important to detect performance issues...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 3 Not under consideration

Hover Text on Dashboard

Dashboard needs to be clean and have short titles due to real estate being valuable on the page. If the hover text function could have a full title and definition of terms for specific visualizations / metrics then we can keep the clean look and f...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release

Asymmetrical Views on Drill Through

Drill through only support traditional views. Can the functionality be expanded to include MDX views in the ReturnViewHandle?
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 5 Future consideration