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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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Better Graphs and no sortheap spikes after DMC

More clarity of graphs values, easier to interpret graphs Sort heap spikes cause perf issues after DMC, No spikes i future versions will improve DB performance for all
27 days ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Customize Field Displayed in My Tasks

Ability to customize to allow add/removing of fields on the My Tasks list/grid will help prioritize & manage tasks. Currently, the view is missing fields that would help users quickly identify what is needed to be known about the task without ...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

RESTORE SYSTEM should support log apply across DSN1COPY and vendor utilities

RESTORE SYSTEM can fail in log apply when there was a DSN1COPY or vendor utility within the log apply range. This occurs because RESTORE SYSTEM uses pageset control log records to determine that a LOG NO utility had been run, and neither DSN1COPY ...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve reliability of re-run functionality

After a server crash, current report runs must be restarted with the re-run functionality with users credentials. So the run once functionality of a schedule does not help, because it uses admin credentials. In some cases the re-run functionality ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Allow Table in Cognos dashboard to show message 'No data available' in case selected data is not available

Hey Team! In the dashboard, I was showing data in the table visualization. It is working fine if the data is present. However, if there is no data available, the table is left blank and only displays the headers, which is not a user-friendly view....
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard filter bar should allow single select or multi select, optional or mandatory

The filters available in the All Tabs / This Tabs area of dashboards are multi-select only. We often have dimensions, that if a user filters on multiple values, will produce an invalid result. Some examples include currency - if you select multipl...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Breakdown of Estimated performance gain percent value for each Recommended Indexes (Used in Plan = "Y") in WhatIf Analysis

As per attached screenshot, there are 4 recommended indexes together provide 42.62% of Estimated Performance again if they are created. Its not possible to pick any one or two indexes instead of all the four indexes. If 1 of the 4 recommended inde...
5 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Submitted

Multiple Workbenches Open

It would be very helpful for developers and admins to be able to have more than one workbench open at a time, the same way you can have multiple books open. I understand you can only have one "new workbench*" open at a time, which is fine. My prop...
7 months ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Make options in context menu in datasource pane from packages available in datamodules

If a user makes a right-click on a column in the data source pane in Report Studio, then the context menus differ depending if it's a package or a datamodule. The menu of a datamodule is much shorter than the menu when the source is a package. Men...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Support and document AT-TLS for all ports

The IBM documentation to establish AT-TLS protected connections for CQM does not cover all connections/ports. It only documents part of it. There is only an 'unofficial' blog post how one can achieve it but not in the IBM documentation. Hence it s...
8 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration