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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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Enable classic reorg with "allow write access"

Many customers want to REORG their tables quickly and efficiently. The classic REORG is by far the fastest option but puts the table in read only mode. Inplace reorg allows write access but is much slower and not suitable for tables that have a hi...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 3 Future consideration

Ignore opening balances on import

Many customers copy opening balances forward then load trial balances which contain opening balances. To avoid overwriting the copied forward OBs a separate form excluding OBs has to be used in the delete tab of the import specification. This dupl...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

CQM - Enhancing Granularity in SQL Code Monitoring and Detail Collection

Currently, there is a limitation in the MAX_SQLCODE_DETAIL parameter, as it does not allow exemption of a single negative SQL code. This becomes evident in the CQM$SQCM panel, where although a significant number of entries for a specific SQLCODE, ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Standard forms with dimensions in rows in Controller Web

Many customers are using 2-4 free dimensions and have at least one standard form using dimension (expanded) in the row definition. This is not supported in Controller Web where you can have only one dimension in column (and another in filter).
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Waterfall charts in PAW based on Element Weight

The recently added waterfall chart is a great addition to PAW. However, the values (increase/decrease) are based on the values associated with an element, rather than the element weight. We often store both revenue and expenses in TM1 as positive ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Planned for future release

Contional Formatting in Vizualisations in Dashboarding

We would like the ability to conditionally format visualisations in dashboarding. For example, to apply RAG to a bar based on a specific criteria. Or to highlight something in red if a specific criteria is met etc.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Planned for future release

OpenPages Integration with Azure AD

We are seeing more customers moving to Cloud services, and one of the services getting adopted more frequently is Azure AD. Neither OpenPages nor SDI contain connectors for Azure AD. Can you please extend the product to provide capabiliy to Integr...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Not under consideration

DIS UTIL could show also the Db2 Object involved

DISPLAY UTIL(*) is used daily, but it doesnt't show the Object involved/affected. This info is already in SYSUTILX so it seems to be possible to obtain it directly with the command Display. Currently, the DBA, Operator or Developer has to deal ...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 4 Functionality already exists

Search and Select Select Prompt Options Criteria

Currently, the search and select prompt search options are defaulted to 'Starts with any of these keywords'. we would like to have an option in the reports builder to decide which of the options should be defaulted.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release