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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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Sparse Index - sub select in where condition

The Where possibility in the Sparse Index is great. To get more flexibility it would be great if you include the possibility to use the sub select in the where condition. This can replace fixed values. Thanks.
3 months ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Allow Run SQL to handle host variables as Data Studio does

When executing a SQL query under DSM, there is no provision for host variables and an error results when you try to execute a query. A simple example such as: SELECT EMPNO, FIRSTNME, LASTNAME, WORKDEPT, HIREDATE, JOB, SEX, BIRTHDATE FROM SPEMP ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 0 Not under consideration

Enhance DBSW/DBRW formulae with Hierarchy Awareness Parameters

So that all existing Active Form reports can be reused easily and maintained. And they can coexist with Planning Analytics environment nicely.
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Not under consideration

DMC DB2 Authorization for depricated SNAP Views

To use all monitor functions from the DMC the user that connected to the database that will be monitored, must have a lot of grants to funktions , views and tables. That is totaly managed in the DB2 System. But additionaly some functions such as S...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Freeze panes to lock some rows and columns and allow the other to scroll

To keep an area of a worksheet visible while you scroll to another area of the worksheet (to lock specific rows and columns in place, like Excel). It would be very useful in case of large tables in order to facilitate the users in exploring the co...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Merge Excel , CSV with OLAP sources (TM1/SAP BW)

Merging someone's personal data file with corporate data sources is quite a common requirement from all businesses. Cognos Analytics Data Modules is a very good answer to this requirement. However OLAP datasources are not included. But users like ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve Excel-import with the ability to adjust characteristics

During the Excel import frequently the data type of columns is identified incorrectly. It would be great if you are able to set the correct datatype of columns during the import of Excel/CSV. This creates issues when you try to update (refresh) an...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Unable to turn off Extended Data Items

Extended data items are on by default and there's no way to turn them off
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Not Able to Rename - Data Set Column

Problem : Not able to rename any column in Data set. Cognos Analytics Version 11.0.9. When a chart is created using a Dataset, it shows all business names. To Rename a data set column, we have to do a extra step of creating a Data Module from Data...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support for static SQL queries text storage in CQM_SUMM_TEXT

There is currently no support for the static SQL in CQM when one wants to store the SQLTEXT for such queries. Only dynamic SQL is supported. It is currently possible to see in the ISPF interface the static sql, but it is gone after a rollup of the...
over 3 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration