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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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Set a custom palette in Cognos 11.1.1 as default for the whole dashboarding environment

Dear IBM, We would like to have the posibility to set a custom Palette which is saved under "Global" as default for the whole dashboarding environment.This is to maintain our corporate identity. Regards, Matthijs, ING Netherlands
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Planned for future release

Optimizer does not use HIGH2KEY/LOW2KEY for columns with COLCARD 1

Optimization issue if a business_time_oriented table has only one row. In syscat.columns the content of the business_time columns are detected (high2key, low2key) but the value can not be found in the distribution statistics. This leads default fi...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 1 Future consideration

Enable support for worksheet function DefineCalc in Websheets

In an enterprise Planning Analytic model, reports are often presented in PAW and in a structured way. I.e. there are timescales, approval hierarchies etc etc, formal processes. In other words, it isn't users making things up on the fly. A cornerst...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Add function for changing Ascending/Descending next to "Search" fileld in "Filter Condition" window

In the "Search" field of "Filter Condition" window in Report,Items are always displayed in ascending order. We often choose a recent date, but it's very annoying to have to scroll to the bottom. This function of changing Ascendin/Descending was in...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Want the ability to mass replace Custom attribute at an asset level.

Ability to find and replace custom attribute. For example when a Data Steward leaves the company we need the ability to find the Data Steward: Custom attribute with the current name and replace it with the name of the new Data Steward.
3 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Functionality already exists

Copy a Tab from one Workbook to another Workbook

The function is required to copy a tab from one workbook to another workbook without recreating the Tab from scratch.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Online index reorg for pureScale

Currently online index reorganization is not supported in Db2 pureScale environments and will fail with SQL1419N.
about 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 2

Provide 'Member and leaves' option for PAW advanced synchronization

Hi team, We like the addition of the advanced options when it comes to synchronization in PAW views. One thing to consider is adding the option to synchronize members on rows based on a new option called 'Member and leaves'. This is very common re...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Regular expressions in calculated fields

For some raw-data fields like res_req or effective_res_req in the job_acct index, it is right now not possible to extract single parameters like the mem-parameter in the rusage section. This could be achieved by supporting regular expressions (reg...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 0 Planned for future release

After PIT Recovery the RTS values are restored

Today some RTS statistics is lost after PIT Recovery. These statistics is necessary for other utilites like REORG, REBUILD or CHECK to calculate e.g. the correct SORTWKxx data set sizes. As we have very large objects, this behaviour lead to the co...
5 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration