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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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Dashboard drill-through from hierarchy

We still have PowerCubes and would like to reuse them with dashboards. We have confirmed with support that it's not possible to drill through from a sub-level in a hierarchy in a dashboard. Previously, when we were using Analysis Studio, we set up...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support ODBC to SQL Synapse

Today PA does not support an ODBC connection to a SQL Synapse database. This is a major shortcoming since this is a widely used database that is becoming more and more popular.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Redesign of cleanup on remote cursor load of LOB data

Customer migrated from DB2 9.1 on Solaris to DB2 9.7 onLinux. As restore is not supported between different endianarchitecture, load by remote cursor was used for datamovement. There was one single table storing about 400 GB ofLOB data (BLOB), tot...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Support Custom Javascript Modules in Saved HTML Output

After converting our javascript to Custom Control and Page Modules in CA 11 we observed that our javascript modules are not loaded when users view Saved HTML report outputs.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Stored procedure in datamodule

Make db stored procedure available in datamodules and visible for the users to use and tooltip.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add frameworkmanager package and datamodule as source in report authoring

Add frameworkmanager package and datamodule as source in report authoring. When you have a frameworkmanager package in Report Authoring, you not able to add a datamodule. We want this functionality to replace external datasource.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics enhancement to new GUI

Please allow users to create multiple connections to one data source via new GUI. This option is available via Administrative console however Administrative console can not be entered by end users.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enhance SYSIBM.SQLFUNCTIONS to deliver meta data required by JCC (JDBC V4)

This is a quite old story. Back in 2015 this had already been addresses by COGNOS team IBM internally, but due to the possible impact to existing applications, it was refused to open an APAR for this issue. But RFE or DCR has not been opened by CO...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Improvement for Drillthroughs from dashbords - passing business key

Currently, only the represented data elements are passed in a drillthough. This is usually the label (caption), which is inadequate for filtering in a drill target. A solution could be, to be able to assign an attribute to each of the displayed da...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

support bind REOPT option with QUERYACCELERATION option

Support bind REOPT option with QUERYACCELERATION option.Today the situation is describe in the pmr:"Once it's decided not offloading at bind time, REOPT(ALWAYS) won't change the offloading decision."
about 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration