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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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Attribute in crosstab table in a dashboard

It would be nice to be able to display attributes of a dimension alongside with the dimension itself. Currently we can only display either the element or one of the attributes, but not dimension + attributes.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

badmin appclose/appopen for maintenance of a specific application

For maintenance reasons it would be helpful to close/open applications for dispatching like for queues and hosts by the command badmin qclose/qopen and badmin hclose/hopen respectively.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

Allow Db2 ESAF interface with IMS to use PSB in place of loadmodule

Currently when a thread is created between IMS->Db2 the Db2 ESAF exit uses the Load module name to link to a plan name of the same name (or another name if using RTT load module). In a test environment there may be a scenario where several diff...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Need Instrumentation to handle Native Strored Procedures created with the AUTONOMOUS keyword

Need assistance with how to handle native stored procedures created with the ‘AUTONOMOUS’ keyword. One of the benefits of using the Db2 instrumentation interface, is the ability to follow the flow of Stored Procedure SQL from the calling applicati...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Not under consideration

Caching of large packages or modules for low bandwidth

Several users need to work in low bandwidth environments (5 or 2x2 Mbit), which currently may result in slow loading or in JS timeouts when large packages (35MB model.xml) are loaded in Authoring. With this idea, users in low bandwidth environment...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Visualisation object source

Possibility to add a source to visualisation object as it is for chart objects.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

IBM Data Server Driver Package Trace requires Local Admin Right

Can you please do an enhancement so that IBM Data Server Driver Package does not require a Local Admin Access to take the trace, just like DB2 Connect before?This is such a pain to have the Local Admin access granted these days. JPMorgan Chase and...
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Seeing the contents of user's profile is not possible in Manage but only in old admin console

We try to use only Manage. In general just please add all functionalities from console to Manage. Detail: in Manage > Accounts when you see a user you can't see its content but instead just properties. This can be seen only in old Administratio...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Backup and Log Archive into private Clouds ownCloud/Nextcloud

Backup and Log Archive into a Cloud Storage
over 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Cognos BI DQM properties for Amazon Redshift Database Processing

Cognos BI XQE properties for Amazon RedShift currently does not support many new database functions, including MEDIAN, PERCENTILE_CONT, PERCENTILE_DISC etc. as per Amazon RedShift 2014 release notes. a. PERCENTILE_CONT b. PERCENTILE_DISC c. REGEXP...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration