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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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REST API use with searchpath

We want to be able to use the REST API with searchpath as alternative to the store id. All syntactical possibilities of a searchpath should be able to be used (e.g. wildcard, object type filter, name filter). As of today, we mainly use SOAP SDK an...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Add DB2 zigzap scan capability to Informix

Add DB2 zigzap scan capability to Informix. Simliar to Db2 jump scan but on both indexes in a join.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Add DB2 jump scan capability to Informix

Add DB2 jump scan capability to Informix. Same use case as DB2. For indexes where not all the leading columns have predicates but non-leading columns have query predicates.
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Identify/log slow queries on a busy system

SQLTrace offers the DBA the tooling required to monitor a user session. However its difficult to monitor heavily used systems. For example one needs to have a buffer large enough to store 90 seconds of SQL queries (small lookup SQL's consume the b...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Need Refresh icon on My schedules and subscriptions

In Cognos v10 the My schedules and Subscriptions has a refresh icon that is utilized by our company and business partners however, in Cognos v11 this feature has gone away
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

multilanguage translations to datamodules, same as in frameworkmanager

As an international company we need translations of attributes within datamodules to different language. This affects the attribute names and also the delivered content / flied in the database to for example multiple translations. For a example a...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

Parrallel offload (Archive logs)

DB2 offload logs in sequential mode. We offload logs directly to virtual tapes and sometimes when have problem with tapes DB2 holds many full active logs. It'll be great if DB2 can offload for example ten full active logs in parallel.
about 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Object should go into advisory reorg when PCTFREE, PCTFREE for update, FREEPAGE is altered instead of immediate alter to have the REORG pick it up and ensure it is done. Having it immediate is just a catalog update and it might be missed.

When Altering PCTFREE, PCTFREE for UPDATE or FREEPAGE, the DB2 catalog is updated and the DBA must ensure a reorg is run to materialize the change. A process that can be missed. I would like to see this as a pending change and have the reorg pick ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Format label alignment on data player on dashboard and report

have a data player with many labels / filter items that it plays through (eg. each week for a year). I want to format the labels to be angled or something like that so that they are readable.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted