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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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Improved granularity for WITH clause

GGDB210017 Implement WITH clause syntax as a sub-clause for JOIN specification
almost 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Added a "callout" type text box to point a textual comment

Added a "callout" type text box that would make it easier to point a textual comment to a specific report element (e.g. bar in a graph, row or column in a cell)
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Allow non Admin users to Publish to PAw

I have a report writing team that is creating and updating reports for PAw that are PAx based. They are not Admins, so they have to get an Admin to publish for them when they want to update a report. This is slowing things down. We need the abilit...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Add Federation support for Apache Cassandra

Officially support and optimize performance from Federation (Db2 Linux/Unix/Windows) server to Apache Cassandra databases. We need to support as many data sources as possible as the move towards non-homogeneous data ingestion continues.
about 1 year ago in Db2 / Federation 0 Future consideration

Enhance the dmconfigurets tool to handle tnsnames.ora when it has an IFILE clause without error

Currently when configuring the CDC engine to communicate with Oracle, the dmconfigurets tool, which reads tnsnames.ora to show the user the tnsnames entries available for the connection, fails with a Java NPE error if the tnsnames.ora contains an ...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration

Create scheduled jobs from Git integrated project

Our team is working on an Analytics project for which there is a need of running/ scheduling an overnight job on GIT Enabled projects. Upon investigating the problem further, it was observed that in CP4D GIT integrated project , we cannot run or s...
about 1 year ago in watsonx.ai 0 Future consideration

API to automate workspace user management in PA SaaS (could be useful on-prem too)

With large systems containing many users it would save a lot of time if there was an official API that can be used to automate the addition invited users into PA Workspace (SaaS) as well as access levels rather than having to do it manually. This ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Make the Db2 jdbc driver available in public Maven repository

Copy of an idea from here: https://ibmcloud.ideas.aha.io/ideas/IDEA-I-2616.One thing I really like about open source databases is that they are so easy to start developing with.In java for example, I can create a project add the maven details for ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

Better session inactivity timeout behavior with 3rd party SSO/security software

Cognos supports 3rd party security/IAM software (similar to SiteMinder) using a Trusted Signon Provider, or via Websphere Libery container. Security software typically includes a web server/reverse proxy layer that validates every request. This is...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Configure system load of indexing process

We have a lot of very big Cognos environments with altogether approximatly 1 Mio. reports, report outputs, views, ... and those have to be indexed for using the content in index search. In case of system failure, failover to standby content manage...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration