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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Control query parallelism by estimated SQL cost

Competing products (Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server) provide the ability to configure query optimizer in a way that it considers using query parallelism only when query complexity exceeds the configured threshold. DB2 lacks that capability, ...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Analytical Functions 0 Not under consideration

Documentation with return type for scalar functions

The documentation of the knowledgeCenter should explicitly describe the type the returned value. I mean, if it is an integer, a char, a timestamp, etc.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Add a warning message if a file is cancelled after it has been ICRE'ed

If a file is ICRE'ed and processed thru the system and items have been thru DISTRIBUTION and the PRESENTMENT has been sent to the posting system CANCELLING a PRESENTMENT can cause several issues. If a warning message that shows that the file has a...
almost 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Not under consideration

Make PDF documentation available that describes the Cognos extended SQL functions

It is common practice by Cognos report authors and administrators to use the "Generate SQL" feature to view the SQL that executed during a report run. This may be done either for performance improvement or troubleshooting reasons. When the SQL con...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow "initial values" to be changed on "Filetr Applied" option of "parameterized query items" dragged inot Workspace

When dragging parameterized query items, their value can't be changed using “Filter Applied” options, and the initial value that was selected is “locked" into the chart/list
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Advanced - Context Filter limitations

User selects multiple items from tree and pulls in Context Filter. a. Now user wants to remove only one item from this context filter, there is no way to remove only one item and keep the remaining.b. User wants to temporarily turn on/off some of ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Advanced - Please provide Rows,Columns,Context Bar similar to Analysis Studio

Analyis Studio provides an area where we can easily drop items to display on rows or columns. They also have handle which makes it super easy to move the items around to change nesting order or transpose from rows or columns.Workspace Advanced doe...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Time stamped account hierarchy

Similar to the organizational dimension within Controller, Klarna would like to be able to create a time stamped account hierarchy in order to encompass changes to the account structure over time without affecting historical account structures, i....
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Modeler code conversion

It seems that Modeler converts characters as explained in the attached file. Therefore, Japanese has a problem with the Unicode converter. Some Japanese characters are garbled when converting from Shift-JIS to Unicode and when converting from Unic...
almost 5 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Functionality already exists

Work load manager- time wasting while waiting for a job to start

Hello We did a migration from datastage version 7.5 to version 11.5. while deliver all jobs to production we realize that the performance in the new version are very poor compare to the old version. after investigation we realized that it becaus...
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Functionality already exists