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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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Allow conditional formatting in dashboard

When we drag a measure into table, we are able to see distribution of values. We can alter the range there and be able to select color pallette. It would be nice to simply drag a measure into a tile on a dashboard and be able to do some conditiona...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

View 'Members Tree' on Dashboard tool for Dimensional datasources

We have many Transformer cubes and we want to use them as a Datasource on the dashboard tool. This works fine but the fact is that there are several manual categories created in the cube dimensions. We need to use those categories to create dashbo...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

Graphically show relationship between model objects and physical database objects

IKC needs to graphically show relationship between physical data model objects and physical database objects (e.g. tables and columns).
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 8 Delivered

Ability to execute Pacemaker status and version commands as a non-root use

In TSA the following commands can be executed as a non-root user / db2 instance to check the status , get the version , enable disable cluster: lsrpdomain lsrpnode lssam samversion db2haicu -disable Pacemaker commands require root access to execut...
over 1 year ago in Db2 0 Delivered

Drive Explorer - Needs the ability to select more than 1 file at once ie Shift Click

Currently the Drive Explorer only allows you to tick one file at a time. So if you have to move/copy/delete more than a couple of files it is very tedious and time consuming. RTP you could open File Explorer and Shift Click to select multiple file...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Dynamic _as_of_date

The _as_of_date functionality works great and makes relative dates so much better. However, the inability to set a dynamic _as_of_date is a challenge. For example many customers have data warehouses that load based on yesterday's data. These custo...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Delivered

Import metadata in the database level

Import metadata in the database level, and not in the schema level. Why: if a new schema is created in the database, it is currently not automatically identified by a recurrent job created in the Cloud Pak for Data project. If the job could be con...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Delivered

Retrieve LOB data from the redo log when it is available there

Currently the CDC Oracle XStream engine always retrieves LOB data by doing a read on the database, even if the LOB data is inline (held in the redo log). This has a massive impact on performance and the CDC footprint
over 1 year ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Locking and Unlocking Elements in PAW

I have recently run into an instance at a client where they had inadvertently and accidently locked a specific element of a dimension causing access to be blocked for this element (a version dimension) for all users across the server - in this cas...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Format the SQL statement under TSO/ISPF

Db2 Query Monitor has 2 interfaces, TSO/ISPF and Consolidation and Analysis Engine(CAE). Under the CAE, also known as the Web Client, the SQL statement being displayed is formatted. However, this is not the case for TSO. Here’s an example: DECLARE...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 2 Delivered