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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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Advanced Graphs - Trend Lines and Summarisations and more advanced options in Cognos Analytics Dashboards and Report Studio

We are trying to persuade our clients to move away from client tools such as Power BI / Tableau to leverage the DW and take advantage of metadata models built in Framework Manager. We have tried replicating reports made in Power BI (with ease) in ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Enhance Filters to support empty and not empty

It would be useful for User fields and Date fields to support the empty and not empty options on filter in the UI. This could also apply to other fields as well. There are a lot of times when filtering you want to be able to search not on a specif...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 6 Delivered

Reactivate change package funtionality using the properties

Cognos analytics does not offer the option to change a package using just the properties windows (Package is shown, but no option to change the package). This option was available in Cognos 10.X and is also available by using the legacy UI.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Avoid Single point of failure for Db2's critical files

If the critical files of Db2 damage, e.g. by erroneously deletion, file system corruption Db2 will no longer be available (#usable). Since some of the critical files are permanently updated a restore of the critical files does solve the problem. A...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Delivered

Update PDF manuals for v14.10.<latest> and keep in sync

The PDF manuals have not been updated since v12.10.FC7!
about 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Delivered

Snowflake JDBC Driver Update

Snowflake is requesting to update the JDBC driver to the latest version as they will be ending support for older versions at the end of April 2024.
8 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Improve installation CLIST

I have just suffered over two days of Db2 Install Clist and can heartily recommend no-one use it to do a clean Install. The problems are myriad but the absolute number one is when it dies/crashes/abends all input data, apart from two or three rand...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Delivered

Provide DROP ... IF EXISTS functionality

Submitted on behalf of Gregor Hack (ghack@zeb.de). Customer would like to see DROP ... IF EXISTS functionality supported, similar to the way it is currently supported by SQL Server, MySQL, and Postgres.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Delivered

Searching on Nulls

We would like to have the ability on all of the filtered list views when using the Advanced Filter, to be able to search on fields that contain a null value in the DB. In addition we'd like to be able to filter on all values that are Not Null. Thi...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Delivered

Controller Web - Freeze Panes in Free Forms

In Controller Classic you have the possibility to select ”Fixed scroll area” and “Viewable area” defined in the Layout Options in Controller Classic.”. This or similar functionality is needed to make Controller Web practical for the end user. As i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Delivered