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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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Data Table - Complex Aggregation

We rely heavily on calculated percentages / rates that are embedded within our framework modeler packages, both relational and DMR. Many of these calculations require complex aggregation that entails the percentage / rate (such as return on sales ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Hyperlink items in dashboard

We often generate lists with detailed information in external systems. in a report we are able to make a list with hyperlink items. However, in a dashboard, such a hyperlink for a list is currently not available img1: hyperlink item in a report im...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

In dashboard, create prompts in mono selection

When you create a prompt in Dashboard (for all tag, or for one tag), your prompt is always with many selections.I woukd like to have the capability to have mono selection.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow all access paths in a cursor with FOR UPDATE

Due to the haloween-problem, some access paths are blocked for cursors with the FOR UPDATE-clause. Also for multi-row-fetch and FOR UPDATE there are restrictions if there is a IN-subquery
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide checksums for Fixpacks

From a security perspective it would be very helpful to be able to validate that the code downloaded from FixCentral is correct and has not been tampered with (or corrupted during download). Please publish md5 or sha2 checksums for Fixpack downloa...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Full support for VALUES c...

The VALUES clause in a fullselect in DB2 for z/OS supports only sequence references, whereas in DB2 for LUW, a VALUES clause may generate an arbitrary set of rows and columns. For example, to generate two rows of two columns in DB2 for z/OS, one h...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support for Apache Accumulo through DataWave

USG customer uses Apache Accumulo as one of their main data repositories. Need CP4D to be able to use Accumulo as a source and target data source for Information Governance, Data Science, Virtualization, and AI functionality (All of CP4D)
about 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics - Lineage from Report Viewer

Include Lineage in the pop-up toolbox from the new viewer. So that report users can see the source of the data. Not just authors looking at data items in the package. This functionality is available in 10.2.2
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delay the insert into PLAN_TABLE, if EXPLAIN MODE is YES

We want to use SET CURRENT EXPLAIN MODE = YES in long running jobs like DSNTIAUL or DSNTEP2 to get more information, what was going on. If these jobs only ran select-statements a long running UOR is generated, because the insert of the access path...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Get More Control over Implicitly Created Tables

MR0125102748 GGDB209017Enhance the CREATE DATABASE statement with ne option comparable the the Bufferpool-clauses
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration