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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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Make it easier when using of Report Variables

In cognos 10, when you were conditionally formatting an object across multiple values -- it was relatively easy to turn on the functionality for each value -- and it was relatively easy to turn it off or revert to the Default/Other value (by doubl...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Control DEFER YES/NO based on type of index

Provide mask to control the DEFER setting based on the UNIQUERULE(SYSINDEXES) of the index (either via REXX or standalone). Currently the REXX won’t handle this because the Db2 catalog row sent to masking is the SYSINDEXPART row which doesn’t cont...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Ability to delete a data source in reporting tool

In C11R9 dashboarding tool we have the ability to delete the datasource of a dashboard. We would like to have this ability in the C11 Reporting tool -(ylp)
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Searchable Tree Prompt

Either extend existing Tree Prompt or add a new insertable object that allows for text searching of elements in a tree prompt.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Active reports .mht viewing alternative

With IE not supported soon, allow any browser to view standalone active reports
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Need connector to connect to the splunkbase

Need to upload cognos logs to splunkbase
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Compression for automatic DB2 backups

DB2 LUW includes a solution for automatic backup creation, which is enabled by AUTO_MAINT and AUTO_DB_BACKUP parameters and configured by the 'AUTO_BACKUP' maintenance policy XML..The policy XML file does not allow to specify options to enable bac...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Adaption for Setup on Openshift (incl. Helm Chart)

IBM already publishes the DB2 DMC as docker file for hosting with docker. We wrote a simple deployment script for installing the image on Openshift. Currently we experience some problems there and debugging is not easy in this setup. So for easier...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Add Explain Support for Arrays

Add support to allow the explain of queries which use Arrays. Queries in NSPs can arrays, and if there is a need to tune a query which uses one, the only way to do it is to iteratively drop and recreate the NSP. This significantly slows down the l...
9 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Future consideration

EnableSandboxDimension parameter causing processes to fail

We identified a problem when we enabled the EnableSandboxDimension parameter in the tm1s.cfg file. When we adjusted this parameter to true, we noticed that several of our processes began to fail, and upon further investigation, we discovered that ...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration