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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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"Select All" Filter Limitation in Reports

Add the option to Select All after searching for values in a Reports filter or remove the limitation when trying to shift-click a large data set.The limitation seems like a bug, but support from case number TS000955204 said to open a RFE to resolve.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Show full timestamp in listings

The “Date Created” column displays relative timestamps (e.g., “A year ago”) instead of the actual date and time. This is unhelpful, as it obscures precise information unless hovered over. Please display the full timestamp by default. This issue ex...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Add REMARKS column to SYSIBM.SYSDATABASE and COMMENT support for database object

We would like to ask you, to add the REMARKS column in SYSIBM.SYSDATABASE and support for COMMENT statement for databases. There is no possibility currently to store some form of a description for databases in DB2 catalog. In big sites where thous...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Cognos 11.1.7 Dashboard: Disable automatic grouping in tables

The automatic grouping can become confusing in the table. In addition, the text is centered horizontally in the grouping.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

テレフォンショックキング

夜8時に毎日テレフォンショックキングが 復活出来たらいいですね。 番組にAI導入。 忙しい人でも見れます。
3 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Extend the filed for Temporary Dataset HLQ on the Subsystem Registration UI screen.

Currently the 'Temporary data set HLQ' field on the second page of the Subsystem Registration function is limited to 8 characters. Due to company naming standards this does not allow us enough space to specify an acceptable value for this name to ...
11 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Under review

Fix Visualization Summaries

When hovering over the legend in a visualization, the summary item numbers are calculated COMPLETELY WRONG. For example, a line graph of the total year showing a ratio per month has all of the ratios ADDED together when hovering. This is completel...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report Distribution by Job : Dynamic subject line in email

When processing a huge amount of Reports or Report Views through a Job and the Report Output is distributed to the recipient via email, there is no possibility to have a dynamic subject line in the email. The recipient recieves in worst case hundr...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLES needs to support INDEXES on EXPRESSION

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE (AMT) procedure fails in SWAP phase, if the table to be moved has an expression based index defined. This issue has been lifted partially, as the RENAME of the table is now supported with INDEX on EXPRESSION (IoE). But in our case...
about 3 years ago in Db2 3 Future consideration

Organizing datasource connections in Cognos Administration

Hi, We would like to get a better overview in Cognos Administration when viewing all our 2000 datasource connections. The ability to filter on datasource connection type (PowerCube, MS SQL Server, ODBC, IBM Cognos TM1 etc.) in order to minimize th...
about 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Under review