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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 add extra table(s) to a view of tables in data module

Using release 11.1x we like the ability to create a view of tables in a data module like we used query subjects in framework manager. Unfortunately it's not possible to add extra to tables to a existing view after the creation. This means that in ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Automate the clean up of orphan rows in the database catalogs during the db2ckupgrade processing.

We have been dealing with orphan rows in the database catalogs for many years now. The first tool to deal with this was db2cleancat and it has gone through various iterations to address all of the various flavors of this type of issue and now has ...
9 months ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 2 Submitted

Default sort for fields 'Size' and 'Last Updated' in Drive Explorer

When in Drive Explorer, upon first selecting to sort on fields 'Size' and 'Last Updated', can the first sort be largest to smallest (Size), and latest to oldest (Last Updated) set as the default. For large folders, it can take some time for the so...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing.

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing. - Which statistics were looked at - Relative costs for table scan/index usage - Why a given index is not used - Which join orders are considered - Why join orders are excluded from t...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Legend sort in charts according to the selected set, even with the zero suppressioin

At the moment if you show the legend for your chart, it doesnt matter what type of charts, you cannot use the zero suppression for sure. The sorting order is functioning not according to your set but according to your values, it is not practical a...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Under review

Maintenance page instead of Cognos start page only for standard users, not for admins

If we have problems with Cognos, we want to withdraw access from all users except for admins so data / reports can be tested after successful repairs. The Cognos information banner does not help, because it is overlooked. Furthermore, users can by...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Add replicaton flag into SYSACCEL.SYSACCELERATEDTABLES

We would like to have a "flag" column in SYSACCEL.SYSACCELERATEDTABLES that would indicate if table is in replication or not.
over 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Request to enable the creation of lineage with Watson Query (Data Virtualization)

In the current version of IKC (4.8.1), there is no capability to create lineage using Watson Query. After consulting with the IBM Customer Engineering (CE) team working on the UMAG POC, it appears that this functionality is not available. Enhancem...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

Add user from Active Directory in PAW

Comparable to adding users in Perspectives (Server > Security > Clients/Groups ... > Add new client) the function to add a user from the Active Directory is currently missing.
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

3000 data item restriction in dashboard visualisations

I see reference in the documentation for dashboards that dashboards will only visualize up to 3000 data points regardless of the visualization type. Is there any way to extend this value as this limitation makes dashboarding against data prohibiti...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration