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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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A Sort-Merge Join should be considered when joining on a SUBSTR expression

When tuning the following query, I saw that changing the "INNER JOIN" to a "FULL JOIN" caused it to perform many times better (which changed the join from a NLJ to a SMJ): SELECT ARCHIVE_STRT.LOCAL_TS AS LOCAL_TS_STRT, TIMESTAMPDIFF(2, CAST(ARCHIV...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Big Query connector with Reject link

We would like to take the advantage of having a reject link option on Big query connector. While loading data in to BQ table we see few records are dropping , to track those dropped records , having a reject link functionality will be handy to nar...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Ignore log records for a dedicated subscription in IGNORETRANS

In very rare cases Db2 cannot provide log records for Q Capture, e.g. in case of a version mismatch, a compression dictionary error, etc. Removing the subscription and reloading the target is a practical approach. But in some situations (e.g., non...
over 4 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Support mobile browser: Chrome and Firefox for Android, iOS

When I open IBM Cognos Analytics from Chrome on Android, the Manage tab is missing. IBM services helpdesk informed me that IBM Cognos Analytics currently only support Safari on iPad. Can mobile browser (Chrome, Firefox) be supported on Android and...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Mechanism is required to clean up spark volume efficiently

We have found a correlation between the transitory errors and storage space used for spark volume, we have to manually clean up the spark volume to get rid of the issue. Manually clean up is not recommended in PROD by Anthem customer, moreove we d...
about 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Capability to Use Custom Fonts

We(implementation partner) have a request from Customer to be able to modify fonts used within the Openpages UI especially on the login pages and Dashboard. System should allow Selection of custom fonts as part of a theme to conform to organizatio...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Retain indentations in hierarchy when exported from tm1web

When a cube view containing a dimension hierarchy is viewed from perspectives and this view with hierarchy is snapshotted out to excel, the indentations in the hierarchy are retained and the hierarchy looks as it did in the cube view. When this sa...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Control Metric Dump for each dispatcher independently

Currently enabling the Metric Dump in Cognos Administration (DISP.MetricDumpEnabled) causes all servers to start dumping metric based on the last server entered in the value field in Cognos Administration. The metricdumpconfiguration.xml of the la...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fix how reference shortcuts on alias shortcuts work in FM

You create a query subject from a database table. Then you create an alias shortcut on that query subject. On this alias shortcut you add relationships to other query subjects/shortcuts. After that you create a reference shortcut on the alias shor...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

OpenPages - Audit Sampling Engine

OpenPages IAM should provide a medium to gather population from core banking and apply sampling techniques and reverse sampling techniques to generate sample sets for Financial Audit purposes. IIA recommended sampling techniques should be configur...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 3 Not under consideration