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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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Header of rows to appear in tables

It would be more than great to have name of header for the rows to be available in table view. Today it is possible for Attributes. We would like to have the same with Dimension name. Could have a good impact on user acceptance. See screen shot fo...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Capture DB segment replace calls which actual data is not updated.

Our client (Fukuoka Financial Group) is currently using Dprop(IMS DataPropagater for z/OS) for creating Data Warehouse. Dprop captures replace calls and writes to PRDS(Propagation Request Data Set) even when DB segment was not actually updated. Cl...
over 1 year ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Provide ROWID addition for PBG to PBR conversion in V13 ALTER statement.

In V13m we get to convert PBG tablespace to PBR by a simple ALTER statement. However, we will be forced to look for a partitioning key by working with application team. In the mean time, in V12 we have a feature called "Hidden ROWID support for pa...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Setting the content defaults globally

In CA 11.2.1 you can set up content similar to Cognos Connection in 10.2 if you change to List View, row size "Compact" and sort by "Type". Unfortunately this has to be set for every browser for every client because this custom settings will be st...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Future consideration

Full support for aggregate function with DISTINCT in OLAP SPECIFICATION

Use of DISTINCT with e.g. COUNT function in OLAP specification (PARTITION BY clause) returns error SQL0441N (SQLCODE -441). Due to the fact that Db2 does NOT support the use of DISTINCT option in such cases, we have a major impact with COGNOS gene...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Run custom visualizations as PDF and/or Excel

Since the arrival of the custom visualizations in Cognos Analytics 11.1.4 we have been able to do pretty much anything with it except export it. Most of our customers still rely heavily on mediums such as PDF and Excel spreadsheets and having the ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

DataDirect jdbc driver for mongodb support balanced string

Then this idea stems from the fact that the customer wanted to connect to mongodb through our jdbc driver, however their mongodb team provided him with a balanced string with a replicaset parameter that allows you to replicate data on the affected...
almost 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Add SQL-statement COMMENT ON as in Oracle or PostgreSQL

For some tables or columns it would be helpful to describe what the table/column is used for since the names are not always self-explanatory. Although COMMENT ON is not part of standard SQL it would be helpful to have such a statement. The DOCUMEN...
about 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 6 Future consideration

Enhancement Cognos Audit

We need to create Audit report for showing usage of reports ,Cognos - Dashboard ,Data Module ,Story and exploration .We need usage/audit data from Cognos Dashboard,Data Modules and all the new tools added in CA 11 to be updated in Audit database i...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Online BAR from pureScale to non-purescale

There are many cases that a database on the purescale cluster is needed to move on non-purescale instance. for example,backup, development or DR system . However, oracle does support this.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration