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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Save report output (Excel/PDF) to a local network directory

Currently, when generating reports from Cognos on Cloud, there is no option to direct the report output to a local network file directory. AS-is, without this functionality end users would be unreasonably required to download thousands of pdf file...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Support for data type binary for joins in IBM Cognos Analytics data modules and Framework Manager

In relational star schema models it is very common using columns with a hash with type binary(16) for the join condition between dimension table and fact table. The advantages are a well-chosen hash function will almost always generate unique valu...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing.

Add option to set explain on to see what the optimizer is doing. - Which statistics were looked at - Relative costs for table scan/index usage - Why a given index is not used - Which join orders are considered - Why join orders are excluded from t...
7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Pacemaker to support Multiple primary VIPs across different interfaces if needed

We have a requirement to isolate the public traffic and qreplication traffic, so we normally create two interfaces on servers , one for public and one for qrep, currently with TSA we create a floating VIP for public interface and one for qrep inte...
9 months ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Submitted

Have column headers in crosstab describing the row header data

Having columns with IDs in crosstab row headers, without description makes data hard to understand. E.g. having "1" and "2" as row header, could by a running-count or a hour, a day, a month or year. This can be achieved in HTML and Export to Excel...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Allow counters with lower priority (calculated earlier) to be used within evaluation conditions of higher priority counters

Use case: Users of Safer Payments have the ability to calculate the most common value of a reference attribute. For example, understanding a cardholder's most common grocery store merchant ID is a great way of reducing false/positives. Because man...
about 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Submitted

Hide tabs according user authorisation

It would be helpful if we could hide certain tabs for certain users. As a use case, we have a dashboard that displays the financial specifics per department, management however needs an overall view of the company wide financials. The departments ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Better documentation on syscdr database

One might find it hard to understand and troubleshoot ER without proper knowledge and/or documentation. We should have better and detailed documentation about the syscdr database and its tables and views.
6 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Support SCOPE PENDING on REORG INDEX

With Db2 13 FL506 LOAD partition clearing and NOKEYDELETE, NPIs are left in a pending state that needs to be resolved by a REQRG INDEX. Users will have to find there NPI indexes and submit the REORGs for them. With SCOPE PENDING support in REORG I...
about 2 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

"Writeback mode" in Excel Ribbon

Give more feedback (or make it non-persistent) if writeback mode in PAfE is set to value mode: If a user accidentally switches this, all TM1 sheets won’t write anything back to the cubes, and this setting is persistent. Unfortunately there is no m...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted