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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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Add theming options for the new OpenMenu bar

The Open Menu bar is replacing the Navigation Bar in Cognos Analytics 12.0.x. It's actually just a naming difference more than anything else. They both are the effective left bar in the user portal that contain links to your My Folders, Public Fol...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Submitted

Increase max number of records that can be displayed in a grid view for items per page in Open Pages

Increase max number of records that can be displayed in a grid view for items per page in Open Pages. Currently the max it can go is 500 and if there are more models to be downloaded, it cannot be done with single export. We request you to please ...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas 1 Not under consideration

Integration of DataStage parameters and parameter sets in Pipelines

Parameters and parameter sets in Pipelines are absolutely necessary for designing dynamic data integrations with DataStage.
over 1 year ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists

Provide the DBA with detailed connection information

When a user connects, the information of sysmaster:syssessions, onstat -u, onstat -g ses <session ID> provide information related to username, client hostname, etc. Currently its difficult/laborious to determine the Informix listener used by...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

XML type support in Db2 stored procedure debugger

XML data type is not supported in Db2 stored procedure debugger in Data Studio or Visual Studio add-in. We are developing our support for SEPA and ISO 20022 projects using Db2 z/OS native stored procedures. They both heavily depend on XML. It woul...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Allow storage expansion and extension during an archive

Need the ability to use onspaces, onparams, & API functions to manage storage allocation while an archive is executing. This is especially true with auto-extension of chunks and auto-expanding dbspaces by adding chunks automatically from the s...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Data format in Datamodules

I am looking for a feature to change the dataformat of the columns in Data modules.For example: I have create a calculation and it's default format is Decimal. I want to change the format to percentage.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to easily see all filters within framework model in framework manager

I would like to have the ability to see filters that have been defined within a framework model instead of having to go into each query subject. I would like to have the option to view all filters that are currently defined within the model and wh...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Distributed Thread cancelled due to Idle Thread Timeout or MONITOR IDLE THREADS not writing record to SYS1.LOGREC

We noticed that every DB2 distributed thread that is cancelled because: 1) Idle thread timeout value that is specified by Db2 subsystem parameter IDTHTOIN in macro DSN6FAC is exceeded; or 2) ATTRIBUTE2 value in a row with KEYWORD value MO...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Run CDC datastage/transaction stage on z/OS, for example in a container (zCX)

It would reduce operational complexity (manage components on multiple platforms by multiple teams), increase the resilience, availability. We also think it will reduce the cost.
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration