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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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Dashboard Multiselect / Select All Prompt like in Qlik to keep Values for ex. Cohort Analysis

we are looking for a widget where we can set directly in a dashboard e.g. all currently visible, so displayed USER_IDs (can be thousands) page directly as a filter for all widgets. (a kind of "select all" function, like a multiselect prompt in Rep...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Future consideration

Remove report name prefix from burst output name

We have as requirement send a PDF report via email from Cognos, with a specific custom name. We have already the custom name save into burst field but we would like to remove the report name prefix of the PDF file name generated. Because from Even...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Currently =X does not work from any panel, should add this to the product

Must press pf3 to get out of the product, then =X or =XALL
about 4 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Write JGate messages to Trace Browse

When using JGate we currently need to look in multiple logs in order to put together a complete picture of what happens during a given transaction. We would like for JGate to have the ability to write messages back to the trace browse on the calli...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

UNLOAD Utility should have the ability to generate IGNOREFIELDS YES

This is a manual effort using INSYNCH to add this to the load cards
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Unload should generate the correct load cards to load Temporal Base Tables

Currently the unload utility generates load cards with Temporal Column Names having different names as the DB2 catalog. This causes the load to generate new values for ROW BEGIN, ROW END, TRANSACTION START ID which is incorrect. Having INSYNCH sof...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Template Designer for Dashboards

The built in tabbed/info-graphic templates really help users to quickly drag and drop visualisations into a dashboard without having to worry about moving/resizing objects, but users are restricted to the few that are available. Wouldn't it be gre...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Need ability to hide default palette in charts

Currently setting a conditional palette in the chart still leaves default palette showing in the legend. We ask to either have some kind of ability to manually hide the default palette or make it be hidden automatically when the conditional palett...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

InsteadOF SQL

It is common in the database world (DB2 but all the others I have worked with are the same) to have a separate product installed that generates code and submits it to the database for processing. Eventually, you will encounter SQL that doesn't per...
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Enhance DataStage Flow Designer Integration with Git

We have started using Git for maintaining our DataStage codebase. We're able to publish/load the jobs to/from Git repo successfully. However, if we want to publish multiple jobs to the Git repository at once, current version of DataStage Flow Desi...
about 4 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration