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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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Option to add a grand total in Dashboarding in a list or crosstabb visual

In the Cognos dashboarding module I use the table or Crosstabb visual. I plot there for example the top 10 customers that purchased the most. I have multiple coloms in there, like customer name and city. I want to know the total amount. So I want ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

ALTER TABLE DROP multiple COLUMNs

If you want do delete multiple columns of a table using "ALTER TABLE tbname DROP COLUMN colname", you currently have to execute many ALTER TABLE statements. The execution time increases exponentially with the number of columns to be deleted. If th...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Please replace "password rules" by "password evaluations"

When installing GKLM, I am asked to provide a password for DB2, that contains 2 digits, a special, a minor and a major character. (This is not the case for GSKLM.) I tell our customers about "quantum safe", long passwords and they are forced to dr...
6 days ago in Db2 / Security 1 Submitted

BRMS Recovery Report - Missed Objects

We recently had an IBMi system that lost 2 disks in the same RAID set and lost the machine. We had to rebuild from BRMS tape and after the system was made available, users indicated data was incomplete. In researching, it appears there is no easy ...
6 days ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 0 Submitted

Lock when editing a skill

Locking a skill when somebody is editing it avoids conflict between users, opening a skill at the same time, and trying to apply modifications.
6 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Bowtie visualization that also allow user to associate and disassociate objects in it.

Allowing users to have a bowtie visualization of the risk and the associated object(e.g. cause and consequences) at the same time allow user to disassociates/associate or update some preconfiged fields through this visualization.
6 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Under review

Add "Last Execution Status " in the Scheduler Grid View

The "Last Execution Status" field is currently not visible in the Grid View under Solution Configuration - Scheduler. By making this field visible in the grid view, it will provide users with a convenient way to check the last execution status of ...
11 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Tachometer in Dashboard Visualization

There is no tacho chart in Cognos 11 and 12. In the report component, this can still be found under the old Cognos 10 diagrams. Will there be a refreshed version of the tacho chart in the future?
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

To provide flexibility to also kill threads of "Security Refresh" using PAW

To provide flexibility to kill threads of 'Security Refresh' indicate the necessity of having the ability to terminate processes associated with a security refresh. This could be related to ensuring adaptability in managing or interrupting securit...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 3 Submitted

UTILITY wait for other Utility

Consider a Utility A executing on an Db2-object (example LOAD) and another incompatible Utility B trying to acquire drain on the same Db2-object (example QUIESCE). Db2 immediately rejects this Utility B, without waiting. We suggest a new Utility o...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration