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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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Ability to include calculations in navigation paths even if they are not part of a table

Sometimes dashboard authors would like to create a navigation path that includes a calculation that is not within a table. This is necessary when there is logic within the calculation that uses data from 2 or more tables. As a workaround, you can ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

need to provide a RENAME SCHEMA statement (other database products provide this)

Need RENAME SCHEMA other databases other than DB2 LUW (i.e. MaxDB from SAP) provide a statement RENAME SCHEMA to rename a schema like a RENAME TABLESPACE/TABLE/INDEX. Needed on all supported operating systems.
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add county labels to new maps

On a legacy map, when a county has data the county's name is displayed on the map. On the new maps, county labels are never displayed on the map. A user must hover on a county to see the county name. We would like to make displaying of county name...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add the ability to manage language for the label of Drill-thru definition

Without this possibility, we must give a title containing the different languages (ex.: Analyse détaillée (Fr)/ Detail analysis(En))
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Index for a subset of rows

Possibility to index only specific rows of one or more columns. This could be implemented with a WHERE clause in the index create statement and would rsult in a tiny index for exactly the rows you are interested in.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Add saved report outputs to search

Add existing saved report outputs to Cognos Search. They should be indexed and made available so contents of generated HTML-, Excel- PDF-, csv- and xml-files can be found via Cognos Search. There should also be an option to enable/disable search w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Compress statement text before insert in Dynamic Statement Cache

GGDB212006 'Compress' statement text of dynamic SQL statements by removing all unnecessary blanks before inserting in DSC. As a consequence statements have to be 'compressed' before comparing it to statements in DSC
over 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

BACKUP command option: ALL TABLESPACES EXCEPT (tablespace-name)

Customer has a huge number of tablespaces (f.e. 10000) and wants to do a tablespace backup of all tablespaces except of for example 3 tablespaces. We would like to do the following: $ db2 BACKUP DB myDB ALL TABLESPACES EXCEPT (unnecessary_tab...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Cubeview Expand functionality with disabled borders on selection

Expand is a new functionality available for cube views & visualizations, but it's currently tied with new selection borders functionality, available always in Edit mode and when Show selected border in preview is enabled. What I'm looking for ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

To view file system usage on IDAA on Z in the Admin GUI

Whenever we get an alert that file system is full we have to raise a case with IBM and have to join a webex and open a putty session and ask IBM to check the current usage and most of the times it automatically gets cleared . Wanted to see if the ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration