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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Provide performance enhancements to address the sort (for uniqueness required) in "distinct" or "union".

When sorting is used to eliminate duplicate entries to satisfy the "DISTINCT" or "UNION" construct, provide the capability for in-stream sort for this uniqueness so the entire result set does not need to be acquired and then sorted. I have seen a ...
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add profile counter for number of long transactions since most recent "onstat -z"

Rollback most of the time is a time and resource consuming action. We would like to be able to monitor how many long transactions we (just a simple profile counter), as currently it is not easy and accurate on how to determine the amount of long t...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Disable query hints in Cognos Report Studio

While creating reports in Report Studio, some users are over riding the governor settings of the packages by using "Query Hints" option in query property and we would like a way to prevent these over rides. We are primary concerned with "Maximum R...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow DSMAX to be set by Db2 command

Our installation has repeatedly had trouble with Db2 shutting down in a timely fashion for IPLs. We have taken dumps and sent them to IBM and IBM has stated repeatedly that the delay in shutdown involves dataset close. We set DSMAX very high and h...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Future consideration

REST API support for Rule Validation

The REST API should have support for rule syntax checking just like it does for TI syntax checking. Today you must "save" a rule to find out it is invalid.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Design SPSS to Integrate With a Cognos Gateway

Please change SPSS to enable integration to the Cognos Gateway and exploit single signon. Similar functionality is available in Cognos Café.
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Highlighted Cells in Applications not Totaling in Footer

In Cognos Enterprise Planning, it was a function that allowed you to automatically calculate highlighted cells in EP Contributor. In TM1 Contributor and TM1 Web, highlighting a single cell will show the value in the footer, but selecting multiple ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Excel link function to retrieve effective ownership and group currency other than immediate group

Currently excel link function cc.fCompOpwnp() to retrieve the effective ownership of an entity to group is limited to immediate group. And the function to retrieve group currency cc.fCompCurr() is also limited to immediate group in one consol type...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Remove MEMBER keyword from BIND PLAN command

It is to prevent creation of such obsolete plans - they immediately get rebound generating default collections so why allowing it in the first place? In some environments implementing strict security is not possible so preventing some actions may...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Make life with data selections easier. For instance with Max Day. Or Rolling 50 days or....

Worked together with TD to use a data module to create calculations to find latest item and filter on that. No need for updating the data manually anymore. Creating a daily updated snapshot of that data can speed up querying. Still running-periods...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration