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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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Reports pdf and excel needs to be WCA compliant

Reports pdf and excel needs to be WCA compliant
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Externalise the table name from the "as locator" clause in a create external procedure statement.

This is required to reverse engineer DDL for external stored procedures
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Provide DSKEYLBL option in TEMPLATE utility

Currently there is no DSKEYLBL option in TEMPLATE utility, so if we want to encrypt the output dataset, we can not influence the allocation thru TEMPLATE.
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Azure BLOB storage cloud connection to save report output

In Cognos 11.1.5 are Cloud Object Storage providers introduced. With this solution is it possible to save report output to an external Cloud Object Storage provider like IBM, Google and Amazon. Azure, one of the biggest cloud service providers, is...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Cognos 11.0.10 Custom Group Issue

when a report is created using a model level filter with a dimension and measure column, all the values present in dimension column are not getting displayed when a custom group is defined on that dimension column, instead only few values are disp...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW Member names need ability to used Default Alias

We need to be able to set the Dimension Members on the right to a default Alias.We have many code names at the element level that are not user friendly or have changed. So showing the base code in the members does not work.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New National Language Support data type with variable size greater then 255 bytes.

The current NVARCHAR data type supports maximum of 255 bytes. In case of use UTF-8 it's not sufficient becuase it means to store about 127 UTF-8 characters.
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Support ODBC connectivity to Elastic search in Linux machines

Support ODBC connectivity to Elastic search in Linux machines
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

64bit Interface for PL/I Compiler

When using 64bit PL/I Compile with DB2, the compile needs to copy all parameters before the SQL database access below the bar, and back afterwards. Also, the each access to DB2 s dynamically allocated and deallocated. All in all, this results in a...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Reorg Index functionality should allow parallel partition processing of a multi-part selection as per Reorg Tablespace.

It is best practice to minimise the exposure of mission critical application workload to the impact of reorg drain activity. It is best practice to minimise the cpu, i/o and elapse time of database maintenance activity which is often restricted to...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration