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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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Alter table / table schema change timestamp in systables (or sysmaster)

systables shows the creation date of a table. It would be useful to DBA's if alter date/time were shown also. At times we want to know when a table was altered. I provided a PMR number above as one scenario where this information was needed but th...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Book/report level expressions for PAW

It would open a lot of development opportunities if we could have book/report level expressions in PAW. By this I mean having calculations/query running only at the report/book level and not necessarily in a cube/dimension. What I'm looking for is...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Enhance Profile Monitors

We have just recently started making use of the Profile Monitor We are using it to identify threads connecting with outdated drivers. Would like to be able to have one entry to flag PRDID < JCC041* rather than enter a row for every version that...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Sending burst reports from a generic email

The Registrar's office wanted to use the burst option available for sending out reports to their users. But whenever that function was activated the email delivery had the report author's email as the sender, while it is supposed to be from the re...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Allow http links to be used within PAW for on premise (local) installations

Currently the widgets for adding images/media/webpages within a book within PAW are restricted to https links. If http is used an error is displayed, the web page must be accessed using an https link. Whilst this may be fine for a cloud based envi...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Remove "obvious" deficiency in SSM scheduling when there are more than 10K open session #

When the Open Session number exceeds IBM's baseline of 10K, we can see Symphony SSM scheduling has an obvious "deficiency": Running task # starts to become much lower than the allocated slots to SSM bouncing between even 0 and very low; SSM busy o...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release

drill down on map visualization

I want to analyze a single report by looking at the map visualization at multiple levels.I currently don't have a workaround and have no choice but to put multiple maps in the report. This method is very verbose and does not perform well.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Derived Quick Report indentation based on the drill point

Seems like the quick report indentation feature uses the MDX level, not the tm1 subset level which means if an element is under multiple parents, then the indentation will be based on the first time it finds it in the hierarchy instead of derived ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Bigquery connector certified for balanced optimization

In the face of the customer case indicated below, the customer asks for this enanchment to have the bigquery connector certified on balance and optimization in order to obtain optimized jobs for that connector as well.
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

PAW selector widget widget should be enabled to reflect a sorted row dimension of a PAW table

If a PAW table column has been sorted (e.g. ascending by values), it is currently not possible to drag the row dimension to the canvas in order to get a a selector widget with a sorted list of members by values
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration