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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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Provide pre and post upgrade dbm and db checks of Db2 parameters and highlight any deltas

It is currently a best practice that we recommend customers do pre and post upgrade dbm and db checks manually. The request is that this should be performed automatically as part of the Db2 upgrade script itself. Comparing before and after parame...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Configuration Parameters 0 Future consideration

Access to SQL Performance Analyzer from CAE (Web Client)

If you use Db2 Query Monitor on TSO/ISPF and your company owns Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer(SQL PA), you can call SQL PA to “explain” the access path for the query. And, optionally, perform what-if analysis. Let’s have the same functionality for t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Define AI Assistant 'Assumptions' or Defaults for when a user doesn't give context to a natural language query

When a user enters a natural language question, they may not give the full context to the question. Our data warehouse fact tables have upto 20 dimension tables. When a user asks a question they would typically only supply a few dimensions in the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

Q-Capture (on LUW) supports to use a dedicated MQ publish thread to perform all IBM MQ operations...

Currently, there is "parallel_mqthread" && "mqthread_bufsz" parameters, but it only used on z/OS. Cx hopes these features can support on LUW as well, which can specify whether the Q Capture program should use a separate thread to publish m...

Cognos Analytics New Report - Default Behaviour like Analysis Studio (Cubes)

We have many business users transitioning from Analysis Studio and would like the product defaults for "Report" to be similar to that tool, especially for dimensional data sources. Currently we have to manually set:- View settings -> check “Sho...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Formatting of KPI and summary visualizations i dashboards

I would like to be able to format the number and not just the title of Summary and KPI visualizations. I would like to change the size and the color. I know I can change the color of a summary KPI but it is limitted colors, and I am today not able...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Find query subjects/items

System: Cognos Analytics 11.0.x In Dashboarding there is a Find bar allowing the user to search for a specific keyword in query subjects (tables) and query items (columns) in a data module. This feature should be included in Reporting, allowing th...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Seamless embed into Sharepoint portal of CA-11 Dashboard & Reports

With Cognos 10.2.2, it was possible to seamlessly embed reports and objects into a Sharepoint portal by using the CPS composent.Since CA-11, that capability (CPS for Sharepoint) is no more available and although the 'embed'(iFrame) and 'share'(lin...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Dashboard function setting individually on packages

The authorization for the "Dashboard" function can currently only be authorized at the top level in Cognos Administration under Security/Functions. However, we also need the ability to allow assignment individually to packages, as some users shoul...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow actions in 'ERROR' status to be automatically rescheduled

It occasionally happens that an action will encounter an error because an incompatible utility is already executing on a given object. For example, when a separate RUNSTATS utility on an object attempts to execute while a REORG on that same object...
6 months ago in Db2 Automation Expert for z/OS 0 Future consideration