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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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Add Elapsed time to Dynamic Query Analyzer

When the Aggregate Advisor completes its analysis within Dynamic Query Analyzer, the only reference to time is the start time. There is no completion time or elapsed time.I would like to know how long the analysis took, so please add completion ti...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cascading function needs to provide ability to cascade a default selection as well. ParamValue needs more flexibility

Prompts that not only cascade w/ other prompts but also allow prompts to trigger default selection of other prompts. (ie: Geography prompt when selected North America it will trigger the territories prompt to be populated with the North America te...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report execution time in the clp command

Add a new options to the clp commanbd to report the time executions of the SQL commands
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Filter on more than 1 query item thats not in report body of workspace

In workspace, we cannot filter on more than 1 query item if those query items are not in the report body. We do not display all the items in the body everytime, but if we donot include them in body we are unable to filter on them. We are restricte...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Analytic Server support for Pivotal HDFS

SPSS Analytic Server currently does not provide support for Pivotal Hadoop.
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 0 Not under consideration

New access path for faster first fetch with a good global time

Firstly, I don't know if it is possible. We can encounter this following performance issue : select on a big table with an order by. Depending on the statistics, we can have list prefetchs on an index. If the index is very big, we have to wait a l...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

Consolidation without AFCs removing AFCs

A customer is reporting that when a user with access to only part of the customer's company structure runs a consolidation without AFCs for the section of the company structure that they have access to, their consolidation removes the AFCs for com...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

better diagnostic for locale errors

We experience -21005 errors typically during loading data to the database. The error (undocumented) means that at least one character is not supported by database locale. Unfortunately it is not sufficient to correct input data fast: there is no f...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Create join indexes in DB2

Enable to create a join index like SYBASE.. Note that it could be great to join row stored tables with column stored tables.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Missing definition of "Indexable Types" with impact if selected or not on results on C10 Search driven by INDEXING

Hi L3 + PM, can you please improve documentation on what it mean to select certain "Indexable Types" . It is critical to understand if you would select an indexing typ or not as we already unfortunatedly went through a quite cumbersome learning cu...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration