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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Responsive layout in reports

Hello, we would like to have an option to build reports with completely reponsive layout when scaling the screen (resolution), like zoom in/out or when users are switching the screens so that reports/dashboards will fit automatically and rescale. ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Setting to create new reports as not interactive

We need the possibility to set all new reports (including those opened from clipboard) to not interactive.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

OData as a data source for Cognos Analytics

We are deploying a new SAP CRM and SD system, and already have SAP FI/CO. We have, and will extend our OData API on the SAP Gateway. It would be ideal to be able to consume these OData sources in FM and/or lightweight modeling in Cognos Analytics
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

DMC Needs to update DB2 Version that is reported after a DB2 upgrade/patch is applied

DMC is not picking-up and reporting the upgraded version of DB2 after applying a patch. It continues to report the version upon initial connection setup. A manual reconnect of each database connection in DMC will update the level reported; however...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Onaudit add events at the statement level for object read/write

To efficiently audit table/index access - audit at the statement level.
almost 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

Data Modules - generate minimized SQL

Reports and Dashboards that are based on data modules should always generate minimized/optimized SQL, also in cases where a filter is applied at the query subject in the data module, like below: Example: select * from table1 where unit = <sessi...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

Load Utility: Extension of field selection criterion option by AND conditions

The Db2 for z/OS LOAD utility offers a field selection criterion for the INTO TABLE option via WHEN( ... = ...). Since increasingly complex data structures are used application developers want to specify more complex conditions for selection of to...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Data Modules - Capabilities to restrict access to specific types of sources

There are 5 types of sources for data modules: packages data modules data sets uploaded files data server connections Not every user should see or have access to all of these types of sources. For example we don't want our users to upload files an...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Add county labels to new maps

On a legacy map, when a county has data the county's name is displayed on the map. On the new maps, county labels are never displayed on the map. A user must hover on a county to see the county name. We would like to make displaying of county name...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Search for function in report data item expression editor

Funtions from the Funtions tab are used very often in the report data item expression editor. But sometimes you don't know the precise name or which are available for your data source by heart. So a simple search by name (and description/Tips) wou...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration