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


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Changing partitioning key columns

Most of our tables that are created before DB2 V8 (and even some created later than that) uses the primary key as the partitioning key. The resulting partitioning key therefore consists of many columns, but the significant columns for partitioning...
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Idea For Limited Partition Locking for RI Related Objects

Lock just the partitions of related objects using a cascaded key structure when utilities are used to write to the database. Allows Db2 RI use to coexist with utility operation when it is impractical to lock all partitions of parents and children.
over 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Import uploaded file with a parameterised wizard

have the opportunity to monitor Cognos when it interpret the txt file content
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to rebrand the Login page with client specific logo

It would be useful if there is a way to rebrand the login page with client specific logo and this is very common requirement across many clients.
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Not under consideration

ENH: Add support for visual totals to Dynamic Cubes

In a hierarchy with multiple levels (say Region and Country for example) if a user only has security granted for certain countries when Region is pulled into the report there are a couple ways the aggregates could be shown. Dynamic Cubes by design...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OData as a data source for Cognos Analytics

We are deploying a new SAP CRM and SD system, and already have SAP FI/CO. We have, and will extend our OData API on the SAP Gateway. It would be ideal to be able to consume these OData sources in FM and/or lightweight modeling in Cognos Analytics
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Use an AI Assistant to rewrite obsolete COBOL applications

Cleanly rewrite old, more or less monolithic COBOL code to improve the maintainability of COBOL applications.
about 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Functionality already exists

Rerun failed jobs at once from Scheduler

We schedule multiple jobs to run on scheduler. Sometime a large number of jobs might fail because of any issue like. network, database issue. In this case user has to go run the job one by one once the issue is fixed. What we are looking here is s...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IPPA Support for MS SQLServer through Windows Authentication

We have Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 installed using Azure for SSO, and MS SQLServer through Windows Authentication for all store db's (content store, notification store, etc.). After a long support call, we found out from IBM that IPPA database creati...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Modeling Function to Pivot / Unpivot tables

Many tables are stored in efficient database structures. It is very common the data needs to be pivoted from a row based table to a column-based table in order to calculate across columns (or vice-versa). Pivot and unpivot are common sql functions...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration