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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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ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Add functionality level

Similar to DB2 z/OS Functional Levels and SQL Server Database Compatablity Level add ability to do the same for new features in newer versions of Informix. At least compared to the previous version. This allows more confidence for upgrades. This w...
12 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

PAx functions that support hierarchies

PAx functions (e.g. DBRWs) currently do not support PAW hierarchies. This limits reporting with PAW hierarchies to PAx/PAW Explorations and Quick Reports. Many reports require the use of Dynamic or Custom reports, which should allow for the use of...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show recently used packages when creating a new report in authoring

In Cognos 10 there were multiple ways to create a new report in Report Studio with pre-selected package. With Cognos 11 this has been changed in a negative manner. It is now more effort to initialize a new report in authoring. First you have to st...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Set refresh though batch job

Data sets are having scheduleing properties to get refresh, However instead of defining individual data set refresh schedule it would be much helpful if we can use cognos jobs to include multiple data sets in a single batch and schedule refresh.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

SQL Generated by Data Module - Pull only those fields used in a query, similar to how packages work.

When creating reports against a data module, the SQL generated pulls all the fields from the table(s) used in the query. This is not ideal, as it is inefficient, and there are certain data types, such as bits, that cause issues in data modules. It...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Preserve and/or restore SSO configuration during an upgrade

Update : 05/17 Being Tracked here ICPD-1535 : Target v5.1 Bank of America experienced a problem during an upgrade of their platform where they lost the SSO configuration. It took two weeks to diagnose and fix the problem. See support case: TS01527...
8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 3 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Dynamic Chart Titles

A clear, descriptive chart title helps users efficiently and effectively comprehend what they are viewing. We'd like to see the Chart Title capability elevated from a static string to optionally include dynamic expressions capable of relaying curr...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Refresh from maniframe to PostGreSQL extremely slow

Some large DB2 z/OS table are loaded daily. Those tables are needed on PosgreSQL side also. We use IBM Data replication to deliver automatically data to PosrgreSQL. When refresh starts I can see on log message: Target parallel refresh is disabled ...
almost 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

Dashboard Filter - support "Display" and "Use" values

In Framework Manager, "The Filter Item Reference property identifies the query item used when Reporting or Query Studio generates a filter. This property can help create more efficient queries by ensuring that a filter uses an indexed numeric colu...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Support for AWS RDS Oracle as a platform for the database for Standalone/Traditional On-Premise

Amazon RDS for Oracle is fully managed by Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). Common database management tasks, such as hardware provisioning, software patching, setup, configuration, or backups are included in the service.
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 1 Under review