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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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Advanced filter creation options

In addition to the option of creating a calculation, it would be very helpful to have the option (similar to ReportStudio) of using Boolean expressions for filter creation. For example, you could then simply create a filter that outputs the last 1...
26 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 1 Submitted

Define centrally adjustable dashboard templates

This would greatly support the implementation of the corporate design (font sizes, number formats, etc.) and the standardized dashboard display.
26 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Unchangeable filter

A filter that can be implemented in the global area of the filter bar or in the tab area in such a way that it cannot be changed, meaning that a user cannot remove it
26 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Information Button with mouseover text

Such a button —or simply the option of a mouseover for various dashboard objects—would be very helpful in explaining certain elements of a dashboard in more detail.
26 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Db2rest set a limit on the connection timeout.

With Db2Rest currently single user (without any permissions) can disable whole rest service for everyone for around 19 minutes. If user, by mistake, uses isSSLConnection:True and port 50000 when requesting for authentication token at v1/auth/ endp...
26 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

Convert Db2 managed nonUTS workfile TSs for DGTT or SORT only without DROP/RECREATE by online REORG

Starting with function level 13508 we can use workfile separation for DGTTs and SORT. We want to prevent that we have to drop and recreate all the existing nonUTS segmented workfiles. Wouldn't it be possible to convert them by ALTER and online REO...
about 2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Add utility eventid to IFCID 23,24 and 25

The new utility tables have eventid, but this isn't in the utility audit ifcids, so by adding it, then gives easy matching between any utility audit table and the system utility tables Also the system utility table could have gaps due to data not ...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

dismissing the success toast automatically and/or per time parameter

Hello, for now, if there is a success message for the process or for saving a view or whatever, it is dismissed automatically after 5-10 seconds, maybe not everywhere, but in the most cases, so please check it and update that is has the same behav...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Give a deeper and understandable access to PAW logs

Today, it's almost impossible to investigate when PAW doesn't work as expected. We had 2 type of issues : MDX code which didn't compile in PAW, how to know why ? User who isn't able to connect to PAW at a time and suddenly with no visible reason, ...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Submitted

Reduce the number of locks propagated to CF for DGTT processing

DGTT are limited to the local DB2 and the local thread, as the local thread owns this DGTT and the local Db2 owns the required WORKDB resources to materialize a DGTT. Therefore it makes no sense to propagate any lock related to a DGTT to the CF. F...
5 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review