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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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Securing Cognos 11 Extensions

By default, any extension installed is available to all users! Tightening security requires admin to go to each Cognos security Role and manually remove access to the extension.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Consolidate free space across entire chunk or dbspace

I suggest a repack-like tool which consolidates free space in an entire chunk or dbspace in order to get few, big enough, free spaces to use efficiently. Being able to do so online and with little blocking is desirable
over 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Enhancement to Display Utility Command - V12-CERT-2017

Would like the ability to further filter utilities by their status when using the display utility command.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Add start/completion times to My Activities (Past Activities)

Now that the My Activities option has been added back to Cognos Analytics, some additional options would make the tool a little more useful. When viewing My Activities and looking at Past Activities, can the ability to view the start/completion of...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Materialize changes through partition rotation

We have some large tables that need to be updated from time to time. Each time a partition is rotated it is reset, so I think that could allow the table/tablespace change to be materialize. This would allow use to save the time and processing cost...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Fire trigger when dataset is updated

Would give the posibility to schedule reports based on datamodules with datasets, like we do on cubes, and burst when data is updated.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for authentication other than basic authentication on web crawlers

Watson Discovery's web crawlers implement Basic authentication support as website access authentication. Currently, there are few basic authentications for websites that are used commercially in the world, and most of them are "form authenticat...
over 3 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Dashboard - Bar Chart - allow the user to toggle Measure values between VALUE and Percentage of Color

Assume you have a Dashboard widget which shows a breakdown by Gender. If the requirement is to show values and also Values as a % - we have to create two separate Widgets. The user does have the option to change VISUALIZATION... but it would welc...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

IF NOT EXISTS should not be saved as part of stored routine source

When creating a stored procedure or function with the IF NOT EXISTS optional clause included, the option text is currently included in the saved source code for the procedure. This is not true of any other database object created with the IF NOT E...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 2 Not under consideration

Add support for clauses of aggregate functions in DQM

In 10.2.1 FP3 DQM added the support for aggregate functions (http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21660309. Specially the listagg function is of concern. The listagg function on DB2 has a specific within group clause, that is used for ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration