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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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Make Workload Index Advisor available to DB2 for z/OS Developer Extenstion users

Index Advisor provides index recommendations focusing on single SQL queries To avoid index redundancies developers need to be able to invoke Workload Index Advisor in order to obtain consolidated index recommendations based upon table or applicati...
3 months ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Under review

Introduce Named Variables on Informix .NET Core

Named variables is a feature that is widely used by developers (specially those who use .NET Technologies) where they nominate a parameter, set him some value and them execute a SQL Statement passing the named variable as a filter.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Drive Explorer needs to be able to unzip 7zip files

Our backups for Planning Analytics are created using 7zip, however we are currently unable to unzip these from within Drive Explorer. So with the decommissioning of Remote Access to the server, we would have to download these files, unzip them, th...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Scrollable Area Height & Width Property for Crosstabs, ie Freeze Row/Column Headers

The list data container has a property for Scrollable Area Height. The freezes the column headers and allows the user to scroll throught the data with the column headers staying visible. This functionality works in interactive and classic report v...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Planned for future release
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Password Protection for Excel while scheduling in Cognos Analytics

This is most welcome feature for most of the Banks. Considering the type of data what banks handle, this feature will ensure the users that their data is well protected in Cognos. This benefits all Cognos users and in my current Project it benefit...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Future consideration

Upload PDF Files in PAW / PAfE

In TM1 Architect there is the option to upload PDF files via “ Right-click on an existing application -> Add file...” to upload PDF files. These PDF files can then be downloaded via TM1 Web or via Perspectives. We could not find a way in PAW or...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1

Planning Analytics for Excel - UI for DefineCalc function

Hello, the DefineCalc function in Pafe is intended to enable the end user to create their own calculations. However, not every user is able to understand the MDX syntax, therefore a power user, TM1 developer is necessary for the definition. In ord...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Allow the Schema Generator to be able to use Complex Data Types for Parquet and Avro

The schema generator currently is only able to generate basic schema. For example a map with mixed data types is considered complex and will cause an error: { "answers":{ "field1": "somestring", "field2": 123 } } SCHEMA_GEN_0007 - Map '/answer...
28 days ago in StreamSets 0 Under review

Make Informix .NET Core work with DRDA Protocol

The main idea of this request is: today Informix .NET Core needs ODBC from OS. Using DRDA protocol, Informix .NET Core doesn't has any ODBC dependency, which makes easy the development for applications specially when these applications were built ...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration