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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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Externel table support for: parquet, orc (big data formats)

Currently a DB2 external table support file formats like: CSV nad TXT; and there is also support for external cloud locations like S3, COS, Azure. The option to load data directly from a cloud data lake in hadoop file formats like: parquet, orc, a...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / NoSQL 1 Future consideration

Allow the application of users local time on timestamps in data export

Safer payments generated timestamps are stored in UTC and are converted using the users preferences (my account) when displayed in the UI (queries or case management). When export dating the raw data is used and timestamps are exported in UTC. Thi...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Technical 0 Future consideration

Stop requiring Db2 to be run in a --privileged container

Using the ibmcom_db2 docker image, even when adding a license to it, or installing licensed Db2 to a container based on a supported O/S requires running in a docker container with the --privileged switch. This is not a good practice and cannot be ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 1 Future consideration

Reports: Queries: Add ability to search the data model within the "Data Item Expression Editor"

This idea applies to report editing . When you edit your Queries (Query Subjects) you have the option to search the data model (refer to attached screenshot named "SearchDataModelWithinQueriesPanel.png"). However, you cannot search the data model ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Hide 'My Content' in 'Save as' fields

CA11.0.7 on Windows 2012We need the Functionality that 'My Content' will be not visible by the Customer, it should be in Control of one Role/Group. For hiding the 'My Content' Folder in Navigation Bar we have a Solution, but for hiding the 'My Con...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Variables on visualizations as amount/length

Adding a variable to a chart amount/length field and make it available to select between them with a filter option. It would look similar than the "Navigation Path". Instead of attributes we can add measure fields here. Each new group of measures ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SQLCODE SQL0302N should give hint which parameter is too long.

Scenario: prepared statementsError: host variable too longProblem: SQL0302N should give a hint which parameter is affected. Details:Using prepared statements with parameter markers such as INSERT INTO TESTTAB (COL1, COL2) VALUES (?, ?)"); DB2 thro...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Allow user to add extra properties in vizualisation (Dashboard)

Dear,Could we envisage to add extra properties in vizualisation (Dashboard) in order to pass extra values to drill-through.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

extended ESQL/C login structure for solving password length problem

Status: In an application using ESQL/C authentication with instance users, a user can change his password by using sql with a passwort length greater than the 18 character limit imposed by the struct InetLogin (see case TS003855467). After the cha...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Base JMeter test plan for load and stability testing Cognos Analytics

It would very useful to have an Apache JMeter test plan to probe an IBM Cognos Analytics installs for stability under load. Just a base test plan that admins and consultants can use as a reasonable starting point in order to place Cognos Analytics...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration