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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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11.1 Visualizations in report studio (bars) need custom sorting

11.1 visuals in report studio need custom sorting and/or TO MATCH DASHBOARDING functionality at the very least. Cannot sort by highest to lowest value. cannot sort by other columns in query
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Adding QDBPPFIX to the realqdbp ODI table.

We want to establish a process to monitor when 4k frames are being utilized for buffer pools defined with framesize(1m). When we try to setup a situation for it, we realized that there is no QDBPPFIX under the list of DB2 BP Attributes, so we requ...
6 months ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add filter & "bulk edit" options to the list of artifacts under a category

Our users work a lot based on a certain primary category - there can be hundreds of terms and rules under one category ("data asset") they're responsible for. For their way of working it would be natural to be able to filter (and also bulk edit/de...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Future consideration

Status Alarm Indicator "Free Index Capacity in %"

Currently a regular, manual monitoring is necessary (compare discinct entries with the index capacity). Having a SAI can trigger an alarm automatically once a certain treshold is reached in order to check on the index size.
12 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Under review

The batch import of e.g. terms lacks individuality - one can only handle the batch approval/review/publish in bulk. Allow as an option handling of individual artifacts

Three use cases: a) a couple out of the batch should be rejected If there is two terms in a batch of 100 that should be edited before approved, then the full batch needs to be rejected until those two are in better shape. This is not a problem if ...
12 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

QMF read only mode

QMF client has an "edit table" mode which issues unnecessary update statements even when a simple select is done. From a security stand point, this is a problem as when the DB2 database is audited, it looks users are doing UPDATES even if they jus...
12 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Menu items in multiple places on Task based UI

We have some objects that are used in multiple modules. Therefore we require some objects to be listed in more than one place on the menu system. On the standard UI this is how it works but in the Task based UI only the first occurrence of the obj...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Not under consideration

Add support for .NET 6 and Linux OS in CPLEX APIs

We developed a product based on .NET 6 that relies on CPLEX core functionalities and we need to make it run both on Windows an Linux operating systems. The .NET 6 libraries are platform independent but the CPLEX Optimization Studio only provides a...
over 3 years ago in CPLEX Optimization Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Future consideration

Enable aggregated bar totals on a stacked bar/column chart

We are trying to display value labels above our stacked bar charts. These values should show the aggregate values of each layer of the bar. However, unlike a regular bar chart, where we can show a total value on top of each bar, Cognos Dashboards ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Unprofessional PDF Printout of C11 Dashboard

Since the printing to PDF of a C11 dashboard is done using the browser's printing capability, the printout (pdf file) will always include a header (page number) and footer (URL address) that are not part of the dashboard but added by the browser (...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release