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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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


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support bind REOPT option with QUERYACCELERATION option

Support bind REOPT option with QUERYACCELERATION option.Today the situation is describe in the pmr:"Once it's decided not offloading at bind time, REOPT(ALWAYS) won't change the offloading decision."
about 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Support Custom Javascript Modules in Saved HTML Output

After converting our javascript to Custom Control and Page Modules in CA 11 we observed that our javascript modules are not loaded when users view Saved HTML report outputs.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to create folders to organize queries in reporting

The query screen in Report Studio/Report Authoring can get difficult to manage and understand in complex multi-query reports. Having some organizational features, like the ability to create folders to contain related queries, would make this signi...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

TRANS NID for spanish NIF/NIE should accept 9 characters

Spanish NIF/NIE has 9 characters so the TRANS NID function always skip the source row because it detects invalid lenght. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iotdm/11.3?topic=function-masking-spanish-fiscal-identification-numbers
almost 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 7 Not under consideration

Externel table support for: parquet, orc (big data formats)

Currently a DB2 external table support file formats like: CSV nad TXT; and there is also support for external cloud locations like S3, COS, Azure. The option to load data directly from a cloud data lake in hadoop file formats like: parquet, orc, a...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics enhancement to new GUI

Please allow users to create multiple connections to one data source via new GUI. This option is available via Administrative console however Administrative console can not be entered by end users.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

User and Site driven global parameters

Ability at global, and also user level (and maybe user groups), to create parameters/variables where selections can be created. These global/session level variables could then be used in reports/dashboards to drive the content delivered in filters...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

DMC add ability to switch from AM/PM to 24h representation globally in DMC.

Please add 24h time representation to DMC!!! The Graphs produced by DMC are very beautiful yet hard to read with a time line of AM/PM.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Future consideration

Conditional data formatting in data modules and dashboards

It is a common requirement to display a Crosstab given a set of PnL accounts such as "Revenue, Bill of Materials, and Bill of Materials as a % of Revenue." There is currently no way in Data Modules or Dashboards to conditionally format a values da...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Be able to have relative default date selection on filters

When a date filter is added it is not possible to have a default data selection. This could for example be the last 90 days.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration