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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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Workflow Action that loops over a Multi Select Field

For some processes, end users may opt to select fields in a multi-valued picklist. In those events - such as a RegChange, it would be great if we could loop over those results and create objects and do other actions like in a Loop. So in my Regcha...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 1 Under review

Full support for aggregate function with DISTINCT in OLAP SPECIFICATION

Use of DISTINCT with e.g. COUNT function in OLAP specification (PARTITION BY clause) returns error SQL0441N (SQLCODE -441). Due to the fact that Db2 does NOT support the use of DISTINCT option in such cases, we have a major impact with COGNOS gene...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Remove Group Based Access Limitation

Description of Limitation: IBM has defined a few limitations with role based access which include the following: A role cannot own database objects. Permissions and roles granted to groups are not considered when you create the following database ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 / Security 2 Future consideration

Journal Update According to Reconciliation of Accounts in Controller Web

Where Controller Classic setting ‘Journal Update According to Reconciliation of Accounts’ is enabled. This setting is ignored by Controller Web. For example, in Controller Web, if a user posts a value in the journal to a movement account, on save,...
11 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Action V (Display SQL text) should show SQL in ISPF VIEW session

Presenting the SQL text directly in ISPF VIEW/EDIT will give the user direct access to all the brilliant commands in ISPF VIEW/EDIT including EDIT macros and CUT/PASTE. This will be much faster than first EXPORT and then enter ISPF VIEW/EDIT on th...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Extend the TM1 Rest API to replicate the existing functionality in the legacy C API

The REST API lacks similar functionality in manipulating BLOB objects. TM1 Legacy C API - Allows to WRITE n bytes at a starting position x within an existing BLOBhttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/planning-analytics/2.0.0?topic=c-tm1blobput However, with...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Functions to transform DB2 XML to JSON data and the other way around

if you have a table with a XML column it will be nice to be able to export the xml part of the data in a JSON format it will also be nice to be able to update the XML data with input in JSON format.
about 1 month ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Submitted

Filtering Catalogs assets by custom attribute values

In our current IGC setup, we have the functionality to create custom attributes and allows users to filter the catalog by these custom attributes. On the catalog screen, example users can select the database asset type and then filter results usin...
4 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Hide/show/enable/disable dashboard filter bar based on custom role/group or setting

We have a scenario where the dashboard author would like end users to interact with the dashboard but not allow them to change any filters in the filters bar so that the user experience is consistent. This is helpful in a scenario where if the aut...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Drill through from report to dashboard

Our business users like controllers want to make detailled analyses if they find extraordinary values in standard reports. Therefore we want to create enriched self service data modules for them which they can analyse with the dashboard tool by dr...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted