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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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Ability to auto upload custom theme and extension

We need the ability to auto upload custom theme and extension instead of performing manual steps.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Request for New DataStage Project Role -- DataStage Monitor

Request for a New DataStage Project Role -- "DataStage Monitor". Currently the existing 4 DataStage Project Roles does not cover all the user case criteria that our Team has. GIS Compliance and Internal Bank Policies mandate that DataStage Develop...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 2 Functionality already exists

Drag and drop set additions for reporting (like Analysis Studio did)

In Analysis Studio, you can drag additional items into a set, and it lets you and they stay as one set. This then allows calculations and summary data to be based on all the data in the set. In Reporting, you can't drop and drop additional items, ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add back the Cube updated date into Reporting

In Analysis Studio, you can very easily see when Transformer cubes were built. This is extremely useful for our users, so that they know for sure they're using fresh data. This functionality appears missing in Reporting.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Index reorg information in a SNAP* view or a MON_GET* table function

Please make index reorganization progress (not table reorganization) accessible via a MON_GET* table function. Right now, it is only available via db2pd -d dbname -reorg -indexes and that is nearly impossible to parse via script.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Vertical Scroll Bar color in List Visualization

In Dashboarding the List Visualization displays a vertical scroll bar. When using a dark color background for the List Visualization the scroll bar remains white. This makes the Visualization visually unappealing. Request that the scroll bar color...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Downloading PAW book in any format captures only the segment visible in the frame & truncates the remaining areas.

The current book Sharing (PDF, Image, PPT) capability renders snapshot of PAW book that fits in the widget not all rows and columns.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add onmode -F <type> to free only certain memory e.g. vpcache.

When having e.g. excessive vpcache usage we need to free the memory and associated shared memory segments for just the vpcache. Our use case was smx buffers to it would be even better to be able to just free the 'free' smx buffers.Trying to free a...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

With 64-bit execution mode enabled, no longer require 32-bit libraries

(Cognos 11.1.7 - on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) Please consider removing the need for 32-bit dependencies in Cognos if the 64-bit execution mode is enabled. This is misleading if we enable 64-bit to try and run a more modern DQM version of Cognos, yet 32-bi...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Create a feature to DB2 11.5 Compatibility of online backup and other utilities

Request a feature on DB2 11.5 so online is backup is compatible with DDLs that require a Z lock (such as ALTER TABLE, DROP TABLE, and DROP INDEX). We have a daily eligibility and customer extract jobs that is running on a nightly basis that requir...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration