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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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Improve data set adding possibility to change its connection

We have installed Cognos 11.1.7 FP2 and are having some issues with data sets on our Cognos environment: - data set created and refreshed based on a certain connection used in data source with multiple connections, can not be changed to point to ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show filter text for advanced expressions

We have transitioned our Query Studio users to Cognos Analytics Report and they are liking it except they would like to be able to show on the report what filters are being applied. We have shown them the option to Insert Filter Text, but when the...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Ability to Update Banner/Titles

Requesting the ability to update the banner/titles within the Planning Analytics Workspace interface. At the top of the screen, there is the logo in the top left and the title "IBM Planning Analytics Workspace. Speed. Agility. Foresight". We would...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Db2 image copies to S3 storage

With new storage technologies available, it would be nice if Db2 utilities could write image copies directly to S3 storage.
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Auto-complete and Function picker for MDX in PAW/PAfE set editor

MDX in the set editor could be greatly enhanced by having auto-complete and a function picker like rules and TI. Edit 2022-06-29: Ideally possible parameters to be shown as well as information just like TI does in PAW 2.0.77. Functionality should ...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Convert PBR tablespace to PBG without an outage

Right now we have situations come up where applications and DBAs have created partition by range (PBR) tables, and there is a need later on to convert these to partition by growth (PBG). Currently there is no way to do this without dropping the ob...
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Support for Python3.8 with IBM LSF Python API

Support for Python3.8 with IBM LSF Python API
9 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Installation 2 Functionality already exists

Add saved report outputs to search

Add existing saved report outputs to Cognos Search. They should be indexed and made available so contents of generated HTML-, Excel- PDF-, csv- and xml-files can be found via Cognos Search. There should also be an option to enable/disable search w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Custom size column and rows in Dashboard Tables Object

The table control auto sizes itself based on the data and is typically auto generating the ugliest possible format. Columns are way too big for some values, way too small for others, impossible to make into a small are to display some data. In 11....
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

System Tables should come with STATISTIC PROFILE set from factory

We all know how important STATISTICS are, and more specially, how they are captured for each particular table ! Documentation says that DBA and application sholuld determine best options, based on usage.. but ibm is lacking to do the same for thei...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Future consideration