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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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Publish Package should allow you to enrich the package at time of publish

Currently to enrich the package you have to go to package and run the enrich package. If I am in publishing the package, I would like to be able to enrich the package there without having to open the Cognos browser.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Global Pins for Dashboard

Create Global Pins in Dashboardingso they can be shareed with other users. The business purpose would be for our developers to create a dashboard object library that users can just drag in and combine into their dashboards
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable READ ONLY access to DB2 from Informix using DRDA protocol

This is request for Wal-Mart , we have 100s of Informix gateway manager installed (DRDA) to join quries Informix and DB2 database.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Enhance the TO_DATE scalar function for source data in week dependant format data

With the TO_CHAR scalar function i can convert a "normal" date format to a week dependant format.e.g. select to_char('30.03.2017', 'IYYY.IW.ID') from sysibm.sysdummy1 delivers 2017.13.4; fourth isoday (thursday) in week 13 of year 2017. The invers...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Rebuild should materialize pending changes on indexes

Recently we had big problems with index splits. Therefore we altered the bufferpool from 4K-pages to 8K-pages and run a rebuild. But we had to ran a reorg on the whole tablespace, which has about 1 billion rows and a few indexes, which we wanted t...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Asynchronous index rebuild at restart

When an index rebuild is required at the restart time, it can depend on the connection of the first user accessing the table. If the connection is killed, the index rebuild need to redone. It would be smarter to let the rebuild complete even if th...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Not under consideration

Restart capability for failed subscriptions

Would like to see CDD Subscriptions restart automatically when there is a failure on the Target Datastore. Our configuration is IBM Mainframe DB2 => IBM InfoSphere CDD => Bluemix Cloudant. We have experienced failures when Bluemix Cloudant i...
almost 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Add data formatting properties for the percentage values(Display % )in the visualization(pie chart)

Description How can I change the formatting of the percentage values to no decimals (currently shown with 1 decimal point)? We have enabled the display % property in the pie chart. But couldn’t find any option “number of decimal places” for percen...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace: Master Sheet

Normally dashboards consist of several sheets and some pictures, frames and shapes are needed on each and every sheet. You can create a sample sheet and copy it as soon as a new sheet is needed, but with that step you multiply these objects and if...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data Module Table Repoint

We had some tables moved from one schema to another I couldn't repoint nicely within the native Analytics Data Module compared with what we could with Legacy Framework. I was able to relink the old schema to the new but since we were already using...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration