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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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Add SORTDATA NO, RECLUSTER NO capability to generated reorgs for PDC PBR

PBRs having pending data change can be quite large resulting in a lot of temp storage needed for sorting data. Since the reorg is at TS level, this can be quite large for tables with huge CARDF. The following keywords should be able to be selected...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Reporting on Technical Metadata (Database Columns [Information Assets AND Catalog Assets], Assigned Stewards, Mapped Business Terms, and Who Performed the Enrichment)

The users of CP4D would like the CP4D Reporting Database to report on the technical metadata assets, i.e. database columns, assigned stewards to database columns, mapped business terms to database columns, and who performed the mapping of the busi...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Functionality already exists

Support for Microsoft Office 2019

Our customers want to use Cognos Analytics together with Microsoft Office to use analytic insights within office products like Excel, Word and Powerpoint. Currently (as of 22th of Oct 2019) latest version of Office 2019 is officially not supported.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Planning Analytics - non-administrator publishing

This would allow non-administrators more flexibility when it comes to publishing PAFE reports to PAW without having to involved a adminstrator.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Be able to send stdout/stderr to both file and email

See ticket TS015786331; currently cannot have stderr & stdout go to both a file and email. We would like the option to do both.
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Functionality already exists

Need filter on every column and sort functionality in MDI/MDE Screen

WKC MDI/MDE screen is not user friendly. It does not allow to filter any columns or sort function is not there. during the troubleshooting, we are not able to dissect any tables other than manually look at each page. we have MDI's which are too la...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Estimate the optimal BLU columnar compression rate by sampling data

A technique is needed to determine optimal data compression rates for BLU columnar tables. Such a utility should estimate the optimal compression rate without and with the new string compression enhancements delivered in Db2 11.5 code stream. In e...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 1 Functionality already exists

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....
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add a userfriendly cube "LOCK" function (like in Perspectices)

In Perspectives it was possible to right click on the cube => Security, and set the cube to "Lock". Causing a CAMID entry in the Cube property cube (to protect the cube for all possible inputs including Admin). This is missing.
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Enhanced Product Master for Streamlined Data Management

I propose developing an improved Product Master solution that will revolutionize data management practices within our organization . As businesses grow and diversify, managing product data across various systems and platforms becomes increasingly ...
9 months ago in Product Master 0 Functionality already exists