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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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Data Table - Complex Aggregation

We rely heavily on calculated percentages / rates that are embedded within our framework modeler packages, both relational and DMR. Many of these calculations require complex aggregation that entails the percentage / rate (such as return on sales ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Hyperlink items in dashboard

We often generate lists with detailed information in external systems. in a report we are able to make a list with hyperlink items. However, in a dashboard, such a hyperlink for a list is currently not available img1: hyperlink item in a report im...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

DataStage connectivity for Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB SQL API (noSQL)

As you've already done for Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API, can you also developp a connector to Azure Cosmos DB SQL API ?
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Copy a report causes broken links

When copying a development version of a report to live, the report is overwritten, but all report views are broken, even though the location of the report and name remain the same.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

With 64-bit execution mode enabled, no longer require 32-bit libraries

(Cognos 11.1.7 - on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) Please consider removing the need for 32-bit dependencies in Cognos if the 64-bit execution mode is enabled. This is misleading if we enable 64-bit to try and run a more modern DQM version of Cognos, yet 32-bi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Create a feature to DB2 11.5 Compatibility of online backup and other utilities

Request a feature on DB2 11.5 so online is backup is compatible with DDLs that require a Z lock (such as ALTER TABLE, DROP TABLE, and DROP INDEX). We have a daily eligibility and customer extract jobs that is running on a nightly basis that requir...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Allow Wildcards in ADMIN_GET_TAB_% functions

Example: if one uses a query like this:SELECT ... FROM TABLE(SYSPROC.ADMIN_GET_TAB_COMPRESS_INFO('SCHEMA1', '')) WHERE TABNAME LIKE 'ABC%' The Function will run for all tables in the given schema and after that will filter the output for predicate...
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Provide sample JCLs of DSN1COPY and CHECK DATA for DB2 release migration step

Provide sample JCLs of DSN1COPY and CHECK DATA in SDSNSAMP library for migration step 2: Verify the integrity of DB2 table spaces, of the DB2 11 Installation and Migration Guide. I opened a PMR 93407,122,000 for this problem. The number was flagge...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Make custom session parameters available for extensions

We use a custom java authentication provider with custom session parameters, for example a custom session id of the logged in user or the customers company name. This works fine in Framework Manager and Report Authoring but not with extensions bec...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Discovery web crawler - need support for crawling data from protected sites requiring authentication

We have an OEM aggrement with IBM for Watson services, Our internal Customers are evaluating crawling data from their web sites hosting Web content to Watson Discovery collection. The Watson Discovery connector for web crawling supports crawling d...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 2 Planned for future release