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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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Copy and use full distributed stats available for federation from DB2 LUW to DB2 LUW

We use federation to check audit records on db2 blu and match then to financial record on Peoplesoft. All treatments are executed from financial DB (row organized), and pb is that nicknames do not take into account distributed stats nor colum grou...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 0 Future consideration

KPI Visualization for Period over Period Comparison

The new KPI Visualization in 11.1.4 is fantastic! We often show period-over-period comparisons. For example YTD Revenue vs Prior YTD Revenue. It would be great to be able to apply different filters to the base and target values in the existing KPI...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

Query optimization by not creating an extra query for summaries

In reports running with full interactivity having a dimensional source (DMR or Cube) you need to use the built in summary function in order to have a summary. This since any drill-downs will create a new data item and you can't reference a specifi...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lists, crosstabs, charts, tables resize with mouse

It would be muche easer to create reports if we could change size of objects by using just mouse (no property settings by entering high and wight).We can do this with Visualizations but for some reason this does not work with other objects (tables...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expose Dimension subsets in Cognos Package.

Expose Dimension subsets in Cognos Package.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

In the world of Multi-core processors, the context switches per second has become a KPI. It should be a standard performance metric like mem, r1m, etc.

When we try to oversubscribe hosts, it would be very beneficial to have ctx/second available as a base metric. It's available in all OS' these days. We could set a busy threshold for that say above 40k/second. For the longest time (maybe 31 years)...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

OpenPages - Automatic Profile Switching based on ObjectType

Hi, many of our users have different profiles for our different modules. When they are accessing a task directly (via email link) they often receive an error message that their current profile does not allow access to this object type. Especially ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Report Dependencies / Data Dictionary

Please add a Report Dependencies / Data Dictionary function to Cognos Analytics in the Cloud.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Add Google spanner support as a Data Source

Request is to add support for Google Cloud Spanner as a fully supported data source. I noticed that Tableau and Looker supports it now. Also, we saw that Simba drivers provided Mysql dialect to connect to Cloud Spanner, so it may be easy as it is ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Created By system field should be assignable as the a GRC Workflow stage assignee

I raise this as a defect, but support team said it was just product limitation. Basically, in a GRC workflow stage, we want to be able to select the object creator "System Fields: Created By" as the Assignee for a stage. That option is not availab...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration