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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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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.

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Format Data - more options for formatting numbers - scale

Cognos Analytics (12.0.2) Reports support extensive options for formatting numbers - including defining the Scale (-3 for thousands, -6 for millions, etc.) - which is very useful for Financial reporting. However, Dashboards on the same CA 12.0.2 v...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 2 Planned for future release
143 VOTE

Use Library tab in Admin to store JavaScript Controls

I'd like to see JavaScript controls in the library tab in the admin console. With the controls in the library, we would have a few benefits:1. Provide a description or usage manual2. In the properties of the control, you could have a "See document...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

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...
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 3 Not under consideration

Better UI / bigger windows for selecting render variables, conditional styles etc

There are numerous windows within the report editor that feel like you are looking through a letter box to try and choose a value. A couple of examples are the Render Variable and Select Existing Conditional style windows. The render variable wind...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

SQLOpt Provide AP index advisor and query rewrite function

Hi dear team, In current DB2 zAI SQLOpt component, we have recommendation only on AP. we wish index advisor and query rewrite can be added in recommendation analysis. Thanks Yuli
2 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

SQLOpt Provide AP visualization ability and explanation on recommendation

Hi dear team, In current DB2 AI for z/OS SQL optimization component, we can check AP recommendations, with savings, and SQL statement etc. but it's not easy to understand AP detail with columns. can you please provide visualization ability on each...
2 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

Possibility of installing the Management Console on other operating systems such as Unix/Linux

Since the Management Console of the IBM Data Replication Db2 for z/OS Remote Source runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), the client requests that we support its execution on other operating systems such as Unix/Linux.
10 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Future consideration

DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL issues a message, TOTAL SYNC I/O DELAY FOR BP?? = ?????????? MILLISECONDS.

We are currently are running a bufferpool simulation in production. When I issue the command: -DISPLAY BUFFERPOOL(BP40) DETAIL(INTERVAL) The following message is issued: DSNB432I -DPP2 SIMULATED BUFFER POOL ACTIVITY - AVOIDABLE READ PAGE MISSES - ...
7 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improvement of Report Functionality in PAFE for Enhanced Data Analysis and User Productivity

Currently, users face limitations in their report, which hampers productivity and the ability to analyze data effectively. Issue is When a value is entered in "As Value Mode" and the formula is overwritten, the formula will not reappear in that re...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Add a feature to verify the model details for DoD

We recently encountered an incident where the DoD model was incorrectly mapped, resulting in an incorrect response and impacting the customer's production environment. Unfortunately, the error was only discovered after calling the Model API. (Case...
9 months ago in watsonx.ai 2 Under review