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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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Option to select "Open In New window" for Dashboard Drill Down

While creating drill down in dashboard, designer do not have option to select "Open in new window". this option is not available in dashboard, report drill down has this option and designer check bob to "Open in new window". Opened ticket with IBM...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

ITC tables for pureScale

ITC are very useful to have table that have large batch deletes on it. Then space reclaim is a quite easy and fast task using REORG RECLAIM EXTENTS ONLY.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Enable developers to manage SAP Connections in DataStage Administrator for SAP and DataStage Administrator for SAP BW clients

Request to make users with Developer role possible to manage (add/modify/remove) SAP Connections in DataStage Administrator for SAP and DataStage Administrator for SAP BW client.
over 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN for BLU tables

ALTER TABLE DROP COLUMN is not yet supported on BLU tables.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Planned for future release

New feature to have FORCE_DDL_EXEC functionality for all DDL changes

The 12.10 manual states that the FORCE_DDL_EXEC environment variable can be used "to force out other transactions that have opened or have locks on the tables involved in an ALTER FRAGMENT ON TABLE operation". We'd like to see this functionality e...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

PA: Usage metrics of PAX & PAW by users or workbooks

PAX & PAW is a going to the primary interface promoted by IBM, but there is no tracking available in identify whether a user is using PAX or PAW. There are few stats cubes available to capture metrics, but there is nothing available for these ...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Framework to data modules convertion

Have a tool to convert Framework Manager models (model.xml) to data modules whenever possible. Our target: Avoid having to rewrite data modules from scratch when FM models already exist
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Enhancements on JSON functionality

We would like to have further enhancements in JSON area like PostgreSQL and Oracle has. Is there any plans on more functions in this area? Db2's JSON support is quite basic.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / NoSQL 0 Submitted

Need an onmode option to terminate orphaned, tightly coupled global transactions. Onmode -Z does not address this case.

If a Java application that uses tightly coupled global transactions (such as from Geronimo / WebSphere app servers) abnormally terminates, it may leave the global transaction orphaned on the Informix database server. In this case, an onstat -G wil...
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

'Fred is Red' - Make specific datapoints always have same formatting

When creating visualisations, there is often the problem that similar datapoints will show up differently depending on how you look at it. For example, when doing Social Media Analytics, 'negative' sentiment should always display in red, whereas '...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release