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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Provide N-Access for IN-lists containing non-column-expressions

Hi SAS-Queries of generate queries containing the following type of predicate:IN (YEAR(CURRENT DATE – 1 YEAR), YEAR(CURRENT DATE))Unfortunately this expression is not indexable
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to build transformer cube on cloud server

On CloudBI users create cubes on premises and then transfer MDC files to a SFTP server. The time to build a cube is higher especially for clients with data in soft layer.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Timestamp(12) support in SQL

Please update all timestamp related SQL functions, in particular TIMESTAMPADD and TIMESTAMPDIFF, to support picoseconds.
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Render Text from IBM Planning Analytics in Cognos Reports and Dashboards

Ability to render free form (unstructured) text such as user comments from IBM Planning Analytics in Cognos Reports and Dashboards. Currently, text sourced from IBM Planning Analytics does not render in Cognos Analytics reports and dashboards. I...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Salesforce.com Data Source Connection Updates

Update for Cognos 10.2.2 and above. Update API version used for Salesforce.com data source connection. 10.2.2 leverages API version 18 which Salesforce has expanded the objects available within the connection in later releases.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Forecast feature to work with Leaves Hierarchy

The Forecast feature work just with time dimension that has a hierarrchy with single parent. I would like to have the option to use the leaves hierarchy. As mine would contains yyyy-mm elements. That way, it wouldn't be required to create another ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Support for Reject link on Kafka connector.

We have a requirement to publish message on a Kafka topic from a database and only publish them once. Problem is when using the Kafka connector as target it don't support a reject link. So how do I get a notice if message fails? Kafka Connector se...
over 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Find and Replace functionality should be applied to only selected items in Collaboration, not all items by default

The current functionality of the 'Find and Replace' button requires filters to be in place to allow only selected items to be updated. Otherwise all items in the Collaboration Area are included for updating even if only a few items are ticked in t...
almost 3 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Suppress Zeros

I have zero supress on, but when I have calculations included in the report, the output includes all values and doesn't suppress. In this case below – all materials are being shown Is this to do with the calculation or how do I remove/suppress a...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Need Instrumentation to handle Native Strored Procedures created with the AUTONOMOUS keyword

Need assistance with how to handle native stored procedures created with the ‘AUTONOMOUS’ keyword. One of the benefits of using the Db2 instrumentation interface, is the ability to follow the flow of Stored Procedure SQL from the calling applicati...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration