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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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Drop down list with search option prompt in Cognos Analytics

We have installed Cognos 11.1.7 FP2 and our customers want to have the following prompt type in their report: drop down list with CustomerIDs with the possibility to search for a value in the list (using copy+paste option to search for a CustomerI...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Instantiated temp tables with full functionality

The SAP data dictionary supports the creation of temp tables. This allows application developers to speed up the processing by temporarily storing result sets of queries in the database and later process them. The data is only kept until commit. T...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Allow for all Action Usage at Merge

It would be beneficial is we could update more than just inputs at the time of Merge. Having the ability to reference all possible actions would provide more flexibility and allow for quicker usage of data. There are payloads that along with updat...
4 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

InformixHQ - heatmap - feature

Hello, Recently, during heavy load on an Informix Database, we noticed that there were some sessions that are using high IO Activity. We were using AGS Sentinel and was able to see these sessions in RED colour in a heatmap (see attached). It will ...
4 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Under review

Ability to use query subjects with prompt macros in cognos analytics dashboards

We use prompt macros in filters in many Cognos package query subjects. When you attempt to use one of these query subjects in a dashboard it results in an error. The result is that we are unable to use these packages in dashboards. There is no wor...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Activity event monitor and CGTT

Usually section actuals after being prepared with explain_from_activity and db2exfmt has a section called “Runtime statistics for objects Used in Access Plan”. This section has valuable information for the problem analysis. If a Statement uses Cre...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 1 Future consideration

Non-Sorting, online way to encrypt Db2 Datasets

Currently to encrypt Db2 datasets in an online fashion we use the REORG SHRLEVEL CHANGE. For large tablespaces, or well-organized tablespaces, this incurs the cost of reorganizing (sorting mostly) that we would rather not have just to encrypt. We ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

enhancements to sysprocedures table and dbschema utility

Currently, there does not appear to be anything in the sysprocedures table to identify which procedures are provided by Informix (system routines) vs those created by users (user routines). The mode column does not appear to address this particula...
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Add more granularity to commands -START PROFILE and -STOP PROFILE

Summary: Enable a new keyword PROFILEID(list-of-profile-IDs) for the -START PROFILE and -STOP PROFILE commands.----Currently, the activation of profiles can be performed by a -START PROFILE command, which in turn activates all profiles that have S...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Views - Unable to see data when adding multiple dimensions on rows in a view

When adding multiple dimensions on rows in a PAW view, the data pane disappears on the right side. It behaves as a freeze is applied just before the data pane. It's really annoying when dealing with certain views. It would be nice if the horizonta...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration