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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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Update the view with multiple hierarchies and MDX

Hello Product Management Team, Based on documentation, there is no direct built in functionality to dynamically update a views MDX based on a selection cell within a book in PAW. The StrToSet function can be used to dynamically define sets in MDX,...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Needs more information

Functionality to retrieve the outputs of a workflow directly within the assistant

Currently, it is not possible to retrieve the outputs of a workflow directly within the assistant. As a result, functionalities like parallel processing cannot be used to execute the workflow as a subaction, saving the output variables as assistan...
11 months ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Not under consideration

Possibility to customize name of Settings during export

This is meant as a further improvement of idea DVMZ-I-214. When exporting Repositories and JDBC Library settings it creates a Settings.zip file, It would be useful to have the ability to edit the name, as already possible for personal data sources...
9 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

In PAW there should be the ability to combine data from multiple cubes (from different instances) into one report by sharing the same metadata.

Excel allows for the combining of cube data from different instances into one report but this is not available in Planning and Analytics Workspace. Dashboards and analysis often require data from different cubes (and other data sources) which shar...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Multi-Vector Functionality

Multi-Vector Database functionality (like Milvus). May be an additional functionality like time-series or as datablade like geospatial and text-search.
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Under review

Tachometer in Dashboard Visualization

There is no tacho chart in Cognos 11 and 12. In the report component, this can still be found under the old Cognos 10 diagrams. Will there be a refreshed version of the tacho chart in the future?
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Introduce Named Variables on Informix .NET Core

Named variables is a feature that is widely used by developers (specially those who use .NET Technologies) where they nominate a parameter, set him some value and them execute a SQL Statement passing the named variable as a filter.
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Automatic IDAA log collecting for auditing purpose

Db2 Analytics Accelerator currently does not support automatic collecting logs for purpose of auditing.We are asked by auditors to provide logs containing administrator activities i.e. who logged on into console/Admin UI and what was doing there.F...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 3 Future consideration

Be able to select which step of subaction when "Go to subaction"

Adding a feature that allows users to choose the specific step within a sub action when forward to it. ' Currently, watsonx Assistant only permits going to the beginning of a sub action, which can be inefficient for complex workflows. This enhance...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 1 Not under consideration

Display DSNT741I message to MSTR address space regardless of source.

Currently, after the start profile command is successful, the system will generate DSNT741I message. This is relayed back to wherever the command was issued. I'd suggest also displaying the command in the master regardless of the source.
8 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review