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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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Allow for filtering using range on varchar fields

we need to be able to filter between two values on an varchar field in workspace advanced.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow sorting of scheduled reports by Name

In cognos admininstration under Status > Schedules, Allow sorting the list of scheduled reports by Name. Currently we can sort by Modified Date, Status and by Priority. Quite often I have to visually search through my list of scheduled reports....
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

export from a stored procedure result set

Allow to export the result set of a stored procedure
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Use of Impala / Hive ODBC | JDBC to connect to Hadoop

Some of the data that is being analyzed by SPSS is being moved over to Hadoop by end of 1st Quarter 2015.
about 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

use spatial datatypes and functions from another database

Using spatial functions is limited to the database in which it is defined. If you have to combine a spatial function with spatial data in 2 different databases you first need to convert 1 datatype to varchar. This is slowing down the performance.
about 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow blu and row tables to be mixed when using shadow tables

Allow blu and row tables to be mixed when using shadow tables.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

TSA - Not scalable

TSA Does not Scale, with each database added it consumes 5 - 8% CPU. In our system ZLinux this is the only option we have for auto failover. When we have 10 Databases we are now consuming 50 - 80% CPU just to run TSA and having to pay extra licens...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Alter-support for global variables

With DB2 V11 global variables were introduced, but unfortunately no alter-option to change the default. This would be especially beneficial it this enhancement would also include the system-provided global variables. With this enhancement each cus...
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Break-In for Mass-delete

Enhance the break-in-process so that it also applies for mass deletes and that these deletes can break in into PWFI-transactions bound with RELEASE(DEALLOCATE).
about 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Excel tool tips should be disabled since they are not supported

tool tips are not supported in Excel format but they are still enabled. So when you have a chart displayed in percentage, that same chart rendered in Excel shows tool tips in numbers and not percentages since the tool tips are not supported.These ...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration