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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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Error/success messages with PAW action buttons

When we use the current PAW action buttons to launch the processes, the error or success messages that appear are not user-friendly for a simple user.
over 4 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Support synchronous detachment of a table partition

Starting with DB2 9.7(?) the detachment of table partitions is handled asynchonously. To simulate synchronous behaviour a complicated work around has to be put in place. Such a behavior could be triggered by a new DML keyword such as ASYNC.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Use Cognos Data Module Editor for general use as query generation frontend in CP4D e.g. as a component in Data Management Console

Intro: HUK came up with a requirement to use Cognos (-Analytics) Frontend as a modeling tool do define complex queries. Their use case was mostly a data preparation / ELT which is not well suited for Cognos. But they have sound knowledge performin...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Not under consideration

Samples installer containing all Cognos samples

Currently there are a few sources for cognos samples. We would like to have one single installer for all cognos samples. From the installer it should be possible to select the required samples like Transformer Cubes, Dynamic Cubes, new CA samples ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Cognos Analytics

Hi, the package link is not clickable in report properties and in event/agent properties. This is too strange to open report and event and modify the package. Please let us know how do we make it enable this features. Thanks.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DSNB328I to be issued when all attempts to automatically recover GRECP are exhausted in all scenarios

During DR testing on several occassions the DBAs at Walmart have found that there are circumstances where neither DSNB328I nor DSNB317I are issued and Db2 z/OS has exhausted all tries to automatically recover GRECPs. In these scenarios they were s...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

To enable the font color to be red(or other color) when number below zero

It is known that we can use conditional style to change a number color to red or whatever when it is below zero. However, if a report contains a lot of figures (like 20+), it is very stupid to apply 20+ conditional styles on these items one by one...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enabling JDBC/ODBC connection to Azure SQL database (PaaS) using Azure Active Directory Integrated Security (email address) credentail

We have requirement from user for using Azure Active Directory credential (email address) in JDBC connection string from 11.7.1 IGC New or IMAM. Currently IBM's JDBC driver in IGC New or IMAM only work with SQL Server Authentication Credential to ...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 1 Not under consideration

Improved Explorer view formatting options including visually grouping of rows

There is a requirement for a greater number of options to format the Exploration view over and above the simply “Conditional Formatting” function, which can be used to achieve colour differentiation. Including the ability to control:1. the def...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Transparent LDAP Authentication for Informix

The Informix (AVL) customer T-Systems/Deutsche Telekom AG requests transparent LDAP authentication for Informix. Last year T-Systems/Deutsche Telekom AG replaced the complete HP-UX hardware for the application REBELL/Ironman by IBM Power AIX machi...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration