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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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Aggregate aware joins in FM

Hi for many years I have been hoping for a feature in framework manager to allow 'aggregate aware' joins in the model. This feature is in SAP IDT tool and let's you choose to substitute the join toto fact table based on aggregate level, e.g regula...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fully implement Cognos person namespace

Hi, in Cognos 11 the fast install includes an ldap and the admin gui works with this namespace to allow creating users etc. Please fully implement this as it's own install option and improve support for tenant features. Being able to manage users ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Schema's name should not be mandatory in Cube Designer just like in Framework Manager

We have different database schema's name in each environment such as DEV_Cognos, UAT_Cognos and PROD1_Cognos and Prod2_Cognos. In the cube designer, we have to define the schema's name otherwise an error will be returned. Therefore promoting from ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable API support to Refresh data from master to the application instance

This functionality is needed for us to achieve functional parity with zOSMF templates to enable integration with strategic IBM platforms like ICP and ICP for Data. Currently zOSMF templates allows Snapshot, Restore and Refresh capabilities for app...
over 5 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enable API support to create and manage Snapshots of application instances with data

This functionality is needed for us to achieve functional parity with zOSMF templates to enable integration with strategic IBM platforms like ICP and ICP for Data. Currently zOSMF templates allows Snapshot, Restore and Refresh capabilities for app...
over 5 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

reduce I/O activity to /etc/services upon each connect

Using filemon, we see 191 accesses to /etc/services for each Connect statement. It seems this file should only be accessed once or twice. This has been verified by IBM personnel with ticket TS001677150.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Backport .NET Core API Support to Symphony 7.1.1

Some of our customers would like to use the Symphony .NET Core service API. The specific DLL they need is Platform.Symphony.Soam.NetCore_64.dll.But it seems like the drivers exist only for Symphony 7.2.1.1, which is not the version we use currentl...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 2 Not under consideration

Incorporate Query Monitor Style Capture Into Base Db2 Product

Incorporate Query Monitor-like data capture into base Db2 product. This would greatly improve the stability of DB2 itself and might provide IBM supported API to the tool vendors.
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard page prompt: Being able to setup Direction of the items such as across and down

Dashboard page prompts, user should be able to setup the Direction of the items such as across and down Instead of having a list that shows only a few items than need to scroll down, would prefer to have a choice to have at least a few across. Wou...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

NCHR for db2 LUW (new scalar function)

Oracle supports NCHR function. To migrate oracle application, we need this scalar function. NCHR returns the character having the binary equivalent to number in the national character set. The value returned is always NVARCHAR2. This function is e...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration