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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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Tree Prompt Control - Highlight Selected Members

Once selected tree prompt values are highlighted and submitted, they no longer appear highlighted. This is confusing to users when they select multiple members/hierarchies and do not remember all the values selected.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Can't create a nickname on a table containing a STRUCT datatype

Can'create a nickname on a DRDA table containing a geospatial column . Problem description and business impact Using DB2 ESE 10.5 FP8 (and the Spatial Extender component) on Redhat 7.2, I can't create a column on a DRDA remote table containing the...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Not under consideration

extend MERGE syntax to allow Common Table Expressions (CTE)

The MERGE SQL statement is a new favourite SQL statement. But I also like to use Common Table Expressions (CTE). CTE can be used in other type of SQL (mostly SELECT) but CTE is not allowed with MERGE What is my idea? Allow MERGE to use CTE. I...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Materialize a reorg pending change through part-level reorgs

At the moment an AREOR exception state can only be solved by reorganizing the whole (partitioned) tablespace in one go. We want to do the materialization in several sequential steps on a part-level base.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Increase data audited in regards to emailing to be able to answer IBM License Audit truthfully

Audit information needs to be able to provide the number of report recipients. This is part of IBM Licensing Audits. Currently customers can only data-mine Mailserver Logs, if that information is included.Or buy inconclusive Admin Software like Mo...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable create index during prime time

We are running 24/7 banking applications and are unable to create an index during peak times. One reason for this behaviour might be APAR PK74729 resulting in a timeout for the create index command when packages are active. But we also get conflic...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to expand a Package and manipulate the items within that Package when added to a Data Module

In Cognos Analytics you have the ability to add a Package to a Data Module.It would be useful if we could expand the Package down to its Namespaces/Dimensions/Query Subjects/Query Items.Having the package expanded could mean that users would have ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

search for module/package when adding metadata to report

add search capability to 'add file' dialog. Let me search for metadata (module/package) rather than manually looking through folders
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extended Logging Information for IBM Cognos Administration

Customers would like to be able to directly monitor CPU and Memory Usage of BIBus Processes. It should furthermore be identifiable which user is running the current task and what the tasks resource consumption is. BiBus1 (PID, Assigned to CPU 0, c...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cloud PA Workspace Display Bad Connection message

We have users at home (even at work from time to time) with bad internet connections and network issues. When using PAW the user just experiences slow set select, view refresh, page navigation etc etc... But this is seen as a product issue initial...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration