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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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Cognos Analytics - Lineage from Report Viewer

Include Lineage in the pop-up toolbox from the new viewer. So that report users can see the source of the data. Not just authors looking at data items in the package. This functionality is available in 10.2.2
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Lock access plan for a query. Prevent the optimizer from changing a plan, once a "good" plan has been determined.

We see cases where a large query runs fine, and something changes the stats, which causes the optimizer to choose a really bad plan. We would like to be able to lock an individual query, and tell the optimizer: "Just use this plan".
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Allow all access paths in a cursor with FOR UPDATE

Due to the haloween-problem, some access paths are blocked for cursors with the FOR UPDATE-clause. Also for multi-row-fetch and FOR UPDATE there are restrictions if there is a IN-subquery
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide a Security Apex / Consumer Root for Cognos Analytics

With IBM Cognos 10.x administrators had the option to set a a consumer root / security apex for their users. This allowed administrators to have an area in which the could stage releases while users only saw an specific area of the environment. Co...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace Re-center on View includes title element or toggle to stop re-centering.

In Planning Analytics Workspace, when you have a book with a defined area that is larger than the current screen, and you have a cube view that is larger than the screen, and select something in the cube view for the first time, it re-centers the ...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM provides Cognos Analytics official support for AWS RDS with Content Store

The client is migrating the existing environment to cloud (AWS). However, for Cognos Analytics, the Content Store with AWS RDS connection is not officially supported by IBM. Is there any roadmap for supporting cloud database in the future?
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Would love to see a containerized version of the CDC Kafka agent made available

A container image of the CDC Kafka agent that I could deploy would be so handy.
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

View and subset counter

We would like to add the functionality to count how many times a view and a subset is used/opened. Users are creating a lot of different subsets and views and it can sometimes be difficult to navigate in the menus due to this. At the moment it's h...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Db2 zOS: Provide support for period-clause FOR PORTION OF BUSINESS_TIME for update operation within MERGE statement

Idea is to extend functionality of MERGE statement in Db2 z/OS by providing support for the period clause FOR PORTION OF BUSINESS_TIME for an update operation (and delete operation) within the MERGE statement. The statement would look like this: ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Association access control by security rule on the child object

Association access control by security rule on the child object, for now, in OpenPages, it only works with parent object, it would be nice that we can restrain association access on the child object as well.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Not under consideration