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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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Trace calculation option not available in workbench for }CellSecurity Control objects

Developers needs to trace rule calculated cells for }CellSecurity Control object to check which rule is being applied but option is not coming after right click on rule calculated cell. This will help in debugging. We can do it from Book but devel...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Temporal Table extension for Auditing and Interface Design

Add functionality to allow the use of temporal tables for auditing purposes by adding functionality like in Db2 for z/OS: - A column GENERATED ALWAYS AS (DATA CHANGE OPERATION)- ON DELTE ADD EXTRA ROW functionality to record who deleted a rowIn co...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Define _as_of_date within Dashboard itself

Currently, if you want to change the date of the current day, you have the option to use the "as_of_date" parameter. However, when working with a dashboard and needing to change the current day, you have to navigate to the "My parameter» and modi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Merge queries and variables when copying objects between reports

If you copy objects from report A to report B in new version of Cognos, it always creates new assets when the name of queries or variables matching on both reports. We are facing this problem when more than one developer creates the report or when...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Make it simple to setup SSL connectivity

There must be something that can be done within Db2's installation/configuration steps to make it easy for users to enable SSL connections - as easy as it is to set up non-SSL connections (or as easy as typing "https://" in a browser window). This...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

access to watson assistant analysis is available only for manager access

While i want to provide access to the business users for watson assistance as a reader/viewer. It doesnt allow them to view the analytics portion. Only a manager access can provide them this access. But giving them manager access, can risk whole p...
over 4 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Ability to customize error messages presented in Cognos

We would like the ability to create custom error messages that are more intuitive rather than the default Cognos error message. (e.g. : Error Occurred! Please contact Support team.) The existing error messages are confusing to business users and ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Send schedule only when there is data (without using event studio)

Our users are sending reports to external customers and they want to send these reports only when there is a data in the report.If there is no data, then they don't want to send any email.They cannot use Event studio as they don't have access to.I...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Online restore of a range partition. Db2 takes a lock on the whole table during the restore.

I have a range partition table with NO global indexes. The partitions have their own tablespaces. Db2 takes a Z lock on the whole table when restoring a single partition.We thought that we could restore a partition online and that all the other pa...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

have NVL() and COALESCE() accept host variables like other DB engines do

See https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://community.ibm.com/community/user/datamanagement/discussion/sql-coalesce-does-not-support-sql-parameters*bm723bd631-c8e5-4c0c-a6ce-a5b977b8d2ae__;Iw!!I_DbfM1H!BBGO-0ceowioxh82YN-AlSZ0PMERaPp_Tm4yoQ_jh6qJaw9xW...
about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration