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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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PDF output of D3 SVG diagrams

As you know, this library inserts a vector graphic element into the page. And we faced problem when making an output of the report to PDF. We expected that the default PDF output functionality is not limited for d3 visualisations. So if IBM presen...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Subset Data Module functionality (create w/only uploaded files, for ex)

Provide ability to create data module with EXCEL data source ONLY to Business Authors.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create User Temporary Tables in round robin

Assuming that there is more than one temp tablespace with the same page size and 'IN TABLESPACE' clause is not specified in the DECLARE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE command, then DB2 optimizer should allocate the temp tables across all temporary tablesp...
about 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

FAP Initial Publish Process Improvement

Currently, every time that FAP goes into Error State (which has been happening more often than we would like), we have to start an Initial Publish to put it back up, which takes a lot of time to complete (from 2 to 5 hours in some cases), and it s...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Automatic deletion of unneeded archive logs

The following directories of c-db2u-dv-db2u-0 will continue to accumulate archive logs regardless of how often the user uses them. /mnt/bludata0/db2/archive_log/db2inst1/BIGSQL/NODE0000/LOGSTREAM0000/C0000000 If left unattended, the file system m...
about 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Replication support for HPSS feature

Technical Problem Assume there is a partitioned tablespace and some parts are archived via HPSS. Therefore, there are archived and non-archived partitions. Db2 transparent archive is not the case in this scenario. There is only one table with PBR ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Changing Distributed Keys

In de new IDAA it took more than 6 days to change distributed keys, and then we cancelled the proces..it would be nice, that this proces can finish in max load time, in our case 33 hours. Why we need it , it could be in the future needed to change...
over 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Drill-through definition & Data Modules

Would it be possible to create drill-through definitions at Data Module level? This functionality is used a lot by our customers at package level, but they regret not being able to use it at Data Module level. Thanks,
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Advanced Macro funcionality (Regex)

Cognos Analytics already supports a bunch of string-editing functions which allows pruning or modifying string elements. However, the availability of regular expression editing in macros would allow an even more accurate handling of string data an...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

bulk import administration settings (like roles)

when we need to add a large number of new administrative settings (like new cognos groups, new folders in shared folder, new dataconnections), this can only be done manually passing multiple windows in the wizard mode. We would like to have the po...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration