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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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Advanced calculations in Data Modules

Add more advanced calculations like rolling averages to the data modules
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Support Spanned Record Format in Reorg Discard Dataset

We would like Discard Lob's from a Table and Load them into a Partner Table. The Discard Dataset can not exceed 32K, so it is not possible. With Unload Utility it is possible to define Spanned Yes for SYSREC. It would be helpful if you could suppo...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhanced Prompt Controls

Provide enhanced prompt controls out of box like the one below. 1. Multiselect Dropdown List With Checkboxes 2. SingleSelect Dropdown List with RadioButtons. 3. Advanced and Search and Select prompt with ability to only display seach input box wit...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add ability to disable temp table auditing

Informix row level auditing masks (INRW, DLRW and UPRW) can be used to audit DML operations on application tables. During batch jobs (that use temporary tables extensively) it was noted that Informix is auditing temporary tables unnecessary causin...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

The customer want db2 product match the new standard of GB 18030-2022, which will come into effect on August 1, 2023.

The customer will have to match GB 18030-2022 standard.
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

More user-friendly trial balance with drilldown report when you have a comprehensive dimension structure

See attached document. Our users are impacted every month.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Export to CSV by Validation Tab Results not End User Friendly

Rich Search Result Report Script does not have an api to get the selected products , the function arguments only have an api which returns all the items which are in multi edit. We want the api which gives the list of selected items as , similar t...
almost 3 years ago in Product Master 3 Future consideration

Allow BIND EXPLAIN(ONLY) use virtual indexes

It would be very helpful if Db2 allowed (optionally) to use virtual indexes when BIND with EXPLAIN(ONLY) is performed. This can be an additional BIND parameter on whether or not use virtual indexes. This option will eliminate/reduce a need in thir...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Not under consideration

Target to Google BigQuery

Customers are planning to deploy the Data Science Sandbox, Analytic platform on Google Cloud Platform, hence BigQuery as analytic engine. But they are facing challenges to replicate data from on premises database, including DB2, Oracle, .... to ...
almost 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Chart labels being too close to the markers

Chart labels being too close to the markers Note that sometimes the labels are not only too close but too far apart as well.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration