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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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Subsets should be displayed as hierarchies

Since IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.9 , Planning analytics Subsets are available for Dashboards and Reports. Unfortunately they are displayed and used as sets rather than hierarchies. In order to utilize the complete capabilities of TM1 it would be ne...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reorg blocking applications when using "allow write access"

While an "allow write acces" online reorg is running lock-wait contention can happen based on the number of rows being updated by an application. The locks for the application can escalate to lock an x lock. If this situation happens, the reorg sh...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Future consideration

Run process in sandbox in workbench

I can't imagine, that this is not possible yet, but since tm1forum was not able to support, nor Google nor ChatGPT , this seems to be missing or being a bug. I was not able to run a process in a sandbox in a workbench of PAW. From the architect I'...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

SQL Data Insights - Silent/ Batch execution of the installationscript sqldi.sh

The installation of the SQL DI web application is accomplished through an installation script in an interactive bash session. Here, for each prompt, the user has to respond by either entering requested information or accepting the default. T...
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Improve Space Search Performance for Nearly Full PBR

Currently, when there are many concurrent inserts on a PBR which is nearly full, CPU and elapsed time for inserts increases by many orders of magnitude, to the point where it can completely monopolize the CPU on an LPAR. In past discussions, I was...
6 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Sort Order

In Cognos 11.2 onwards, we should be able to sort the content in Team Content/My Content irrespective of the type of the object. Right now, if I sort, it first lists all the folders followed by Package. It should be sorted just like it was in the ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Future consideration

Full package support for Restful services

A restful service contains one and only one SQL statement and is, simply put, a mini-static package. It was delivered with a couple of problems. Firstly, the only way to tell if this static package is a restful service is to look at the HOSTLANG c...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Future consideration

Organize Application and Plan

Currently in the section Application and Plan is not possible to create folders to organize applications as it's possible to do in Reports and Analysis This is not allowing a clean and easy structure for users when multiple access/markets requires...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Reorg Rebalance for partitions with different DSSIZE

Reorg Rebalance tries to set new partition boundaries so that rows are evenly distributed across the reorganized partitions. It does not consider that the partitions can have different values for DSSIZE. So the functionality of Reorg Rebalance sho...
11 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow INSERT to write to external tables

Currently one can only write to an external table by selecting from an existing table. There are many uses for writing to an external table that do not involved writing only the results of a SELECT query. Combined with RFE INFX-I-61, Appendable Ex...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration