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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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Allow column ALIAS in HAVING clause

Just recently while working on a customer we were able to speedup a very slow query by using the recently introduced OLAP functions. The query looks like this: SELECT col1, col2, col3, col4, rank() over (partition by col1, col2 order by col4 desc)...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Call pre-executed Active Report output version

The customer wants to call a pre-executed report output version. If we use the URL that is in the new "share"-option in C11R05 the report is executed, the saved output-version is not called.If we use the following syntax the cognos navigation on t...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Purge Application Text Records from Deleted Views and Widgets

When you create a view or widget in the TFUI, each instance becomes an Application Text record. Once deleted, the Application Text record stays and becomes an orphan. As development continues, there should be a process (or script) to purge all orp...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Create a real IDS driver for Tableau

Hi, my customer is a long haul IDS customer who loves it. A few years ago, his team fell in love with Tableau, which resolved many business cases for his company. Unfortunately, after getting more and more demanding with Tableau functionality, and...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Documentation about custom node dialog builder

need documentation about custom node dialog builder. When developing custom nodes with custom node dialog builder, variables such as modelerData and modelerDataModel (SPSS reserved words) are handled, but there is not much documentation on how to ...
over 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 1 Functionality already exists

In My schedules and subscriptions, under Past, give the user more information to troubleshoot a failure

In My schedules and subscriptions, under the Past view, for failures the only information provided to the user is the:-entry name-request time-status (Testing failed or Failed in R8 and R9 respectively) This is not enough information for an end us...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Module- Dynamic Data Item Screen Tip

Automate Screen tip for data items in the Data Module so the developers do not have to manually type a text under Screen tip for data items. An enhanced option would allow a developer to select a data item field under Screen tip properties in Data...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Simplify CDC Owner Password Change for Oracle Target

We are requesting a simplified method of changing the CDC owner password for an Oracle target instance. Rather than having to reconfigure the CDC instance on Linux using the dmconfigurets we would like a command line password change. For example, ...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Federated PASSTHRU Capability in Watson Query (WQ)

IBM's federated technology supports SET PASSTHRU to a remote Server. This enables SQL syntax native to the remote data repository to be sent. This is useful for performance comparisons (e.g. predicate pushdown) to be made from the same end-user cl...
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Propagation of Indexes for Virtualized Tables to SYSCAT.INDEXES

Watson Query (WQ) is based on IBM's decades-old federation technology (DataJoiner, et al). In Federation Indexes on remote objects are propagated back to Db2 and populate SYSCAT.INDEXES. These Index specifications help inform the federated server ...
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review