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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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Customize on demand tool bar (right click toolbar menu)

Need the ability to modify the right click/on demand menu toolbar on a report/dashboard, to only allow some of the items for users to choose.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

change the specification of SPSS Modeler 18.1 around the SQL statement syntax check while accessing to Azure SQL Data Warehouse.

Requirement We’d like you to change the specification of SPSS Modeler 18.1 around the SQL statement syntax check while accessing to Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Currently Modeler uses the stored procedure called “sp_prepare “ which has big overhead ...
over 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of EXPLAIN

With early versions of DB2 the performance of EXPLAIN was not relevant. Nowadays, where DBAs do thousands of EXPLAINs, the performance and turnaround is getting critical. I think there is room for better performance and throughput of mass EXPLAINs...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Resizing 'Select and Search' prompt and 'Change' default option

For Cognos Analytics 11.0.6 version I want to be able to increase the size for the "select and search' prompt(prompt layout size on the prompt page) and want that default option would be as 'Contains any of these keywords'.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Keep the replication functionality in the 2.1 release

IBM support just notify us that replication and synchronization functionality that exist and has existed forever with TM1 is going to be deprecated for now and IBM does not have any new feature for replacement. We have been using this functionalit...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PAW - Allow option to set cube view as read only for all users

I kindly request you to enable a configuration option in PAW to set a view as read-only for all users. Below is my use case - As a developer, I often set up various views in a book for reporting purposes and prefer to prevent users from updating d...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add ability to secure tabs in a dashboard based on different security groups

We have different groups who likes to see similar dashboards but currently we have to create separate dashboards for each group due to data security issue and we would very much like to have a functionality available where we can secure a tab in t...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Improve INDOUBT thread processing in two-phase commit scenario

Recently we had a pretty severe production outage on an 8-way data sharing group. After resolution of the root cause, WAS and Db2 z were quite slow in recovery. Following the crash, there were dozens of indoubt threads and lots of retained locks a...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Parallel log file archival and retrieval

Log archival / retrieval is performed by a single thread. This can lead to log archival stuck e.g. if log file need to be retrieved to be added to online backup include logs. This is also problematic if multiple log files need to be retrieved duri...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Future consideration

Manta DBT Support as part of CPD IKC

State Farm is using DBT internally and we are currently working on a CPD POC with IBM DV and IKC. They are looking for a complete data fabric solution to connect to all of their data sources. There are questions on IBM's Semantic Layer solution an...
about 2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Planned for future release