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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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Ability to add comments/hints to report elements in report author

While developing a report, Funcional requirements, meeting’s annotations and such are documented, but it would much easier and better documented if present in the report’s specification. This resource is also more important if client uses any kind...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Submitted

Ability to Single Select Value Filter/Prompt Drop Down List in Dasboards

want to have a dashboard filter like we can do in reporting, where the user can select only one value in a drop down list prompt. This capability does not exist currently in Dashboards
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add commit frequency to Modify Recovery utility

If there a numerous rows in SYSCOPY to be modified out the modify job holds locks on SYSCOPY for an extended period of time and can cause timeouts for other processes and utilities that are using SYSCOPY
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Change stored procedure SYSPROC.NNSTAT to use method 2 for ODBC based nicknames

The SYSPROC.NNSTAT stored procedure uses method 1 for automatic, asynchronous statistics collection for ODBC based nicknames.This results in lack of statistics being collected, leading the optimizer to derive at inefficient access plans.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

Replication Toolset

Enhancement request for the Infosphere Data Replication Management Console. 1.) Console to capture waits on DML leading to latency 2.) Preserve subscription/table performance monitors via save to quickly setup after a shutdown/startup. 3.) Save hi...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Enable rebind of packages after a reorg in Automation Tool

I want to use Automation Tool to reorganise a tablespace to materialise a change to a UTS. I will issue the ALTER TABLESPACE MAXPARTITIONS nnn statement during the working day, which will put the tablespace into the AREOR state. I have a job profi...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 2 Functionality already exists

Add ability to manage used sender mail address of scheduled mail report output

In our company reports are being scheduled and the output can be sent to multiple mail recipients. Report builders are mostly part of a team and are used to communicate to the organisation as a team by using a team mail address. But, the used send...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Watson Discovery query need support for Field relevany boosting / Field relevancy weighing

BMC Customer's are requesting that Watson Discovery query should allow specifyingfield relevancy boosting / field relevancy weighing when searching documents - typically for gettingmatching passages. In the absence of this Feature, BMC Customer's ...
almost 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Hierarchies created from attributes by PAW

Hello, Planning Analytics Workspace gives opportunity to create hierarchy using element attributes. Unfortunately this features can be used only for creation two-levels hierarchy. Our customers wants to create multiple level hierarchies using PAW.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

DB2 profiles - register START PROFILE and STOP PROFILE commands

Summary: Log all -START PROFILE and -STOP PROFILE commands in a DB2 table, ready to be used for queries onto the history tables. Details: When DB2 profiles are being enabled (SYSIBM.DSN_PROFILE_TABLE.PROFILE_ENABLED='Y'), the next -START PROFILE c...
about 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Future consideration