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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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adjust card estimates on predicates using both COL = '?' and COL > <value> similar to accounting for NUMNULLS

Component: DB2 optimizer When a column is NULLable, a predicate COL = ? will account for numnulls to estimate cardinality. The problem comes when column is NOT NULL, and "the NULL value" is a real value. Peoplesoft has been designed to use a major...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Provide live/refresh schedule connection types to excel file uploads feature and allow users to create prompts in Dashboards

Releasing many newer versions every year since 2015 is waste without thinking of adding live/schedule refresh options for excel file uploads like Tableau. This is where Cognos is mainly lagging behind because many of the excel customers creating t...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support for webfonts via CSS in globalreportstyles to local browsers for reports

Support for webfonts via CSS in globalreportstyles to local browsers for reports TS001303419PH03961 REGULAR FLANDERS FONTS ARE NOT CONSIDERED USING FIREFOX ESR AND IE11
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Delay the insert into PLAN_TABLE, if EXPLAIN MODE is YES

We want to use SET CURRENT EXPLAIN MODE = YES in long running jobs like DSNTIAUL or DSNTEP2 to get more information, what was going on. If these jobs only ran select-statements a long running UOR is generated, because the insert of the access path...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Downloading PAW book in any format captures only the segment visible in the frame & truncates the remaining areas.

The current book Sharing (PDF, Image, PPT) capability renders snapshot of PAW book that fits in the widget not all rows and columns.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Provide a method to forcibly kick users from an instance

If the primary instance or any instance a user is logged into needs to be restarted or shutdown for either maintenance or technical issues this could help provide notification to the logged in users.
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Add Team content and My content to the Tabs Area in Cognos 11.2

In stead of we all need to add an Extension adding Team Content and My content to the Tabs in Cognos 11.2. Could you just add in to the Tabs Recent and Get Started. It is the most used areas and the users must go to the Hamburger Menu to acces Tea...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Provide sample JCLs of DSN1COPY and CHECK DATA for DB2 release migration step

Provide sample JCLs of DSN1COPY and CHECK DATA in SDSNSAMP library for migration step 2: Verify the integrity of DB2 table spaces, of the DB2 11 Installation and Migration Guide. I opened a PMR 93407,122,000 for this problem. The number was flagge...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Monitor and suggest Gateway Threads

FTM for Digital Payments should offer ways to monitor Gateway Threads and indicate optimal thread values.
11 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review

Automatically scale gateway threads

FTM for Digital Payments should be able to automatically scale Gateway threads to achieve optimal performance based on load.
11 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review