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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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Make map visualization viewable in PDF format

The interactive map visualization is a fine thing while using it interactively online. Some of our users would like to put them (of course in the starting zoom level) in pdf-reports, which is not possible. They could use legacy visualization like ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Client side rendering of interactive reporting

Client side rendering of interactive reporting will enhance the user experience a lot. It will also reduce the load on the Cognos servers 1. Faster sorting (and other operations) where no new data retrievals are needed and the output is only sorte...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Enable use of encrypted passwords to test connections to databases in the DVM JGate Server interface

A successful “Test Connection” must be completed to “Add new relational data source name and connection parameters” using the DVM JDBC Gateway Server interface. To perform the “Test Connection” a valid userid and password with access to the data s...
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

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

CM should support majority-vote failover arbitration as an alternative to priority-based

Currently, the Informix Connection Manager handles failover arbitration on the basis of a priority setting in the ${CMCONFIG} file. This has the effect of making a single CM the judge, jury and executioner when it comes to failover events. And it ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Future 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

Option to disable zooming in report-visualizations

I would like to turn off the visualization zooming feature when using e.g. a barchart-visualization with just a few categories. There are a lot of use-cases in which it is not required to zoom into a chart as a pretty small bar chart turns into on...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future 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