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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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Star schema grouping in data modules

Add this functionality that is present in FM and it is important. Every cognos users would benefit a quick construction of schemas that clarify which path the query is following when you have many tables connected.
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 4 Not under consideration

Customize on demand tool bar (right click toolbar menu)

Need the ability to modify the right click/on demand menu toolbar on a report/dashboard, to only allow some of the items for users to choose.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Use a report expression as the default selection for a prompt

Customer would like to be able to use a report expression as the default selection parameter for a prompt. The client would like this ability so that they can use a calculation (example the current date) and have the default selected date be this ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Wrap Text in PAW Cube view,

If I add a cube view to workspace with string text, currently data is being truncated even with relatively short text length, approx. 100 characters or more at font size 12. See the attached document which illustrates the issue
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Resizing 'Select and Search' prompt and 'Change' default option

For Cognos Analytics 11.0.6 version I want to be able to increase the size for the "select and search' prompt(prompt layout size on the prompt page) and want that default option would be as 'Contains any of these keywords'.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

Improve performance of EXPLAIN

With early versions of DB2 the performance of EXPLAIN was not relevant. Nowadays, where DBAs do thousands of EXPLAINs, the performance and turnaround is getting critical. I think there is room for better performance and throughput of mass EXPLAINs...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Primary Keys should allow NOT TRUSTED

Currently you can create NOT ENFORCED primary keys but the optimizer will then always treat these as trusted. This causes problems when the constraint is violated but a filter includes all PK columns since the engine will return only one row even ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 5 Not under consideration

Database sends (DBS) should fail

In Pafe when a user executes a DBS against a cell which is not writeable the formula returns the value of the cell. Not writeable means C level, read-only access, write access but locked. This is counter productive, the job of the formula is to...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Not under consideration

Search for function in report data item expression editor

Funtions from the Funtions tab are used very often in the report data item expression editor. But sometimes you don't know the precise name or which are available for your data source by heart. So a simple search by name (and description/Tips) wou...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

InSync support to LOAD SHRLEVEL NONE LOG YES

Add InSync support to LOAD SHRLEVEL NONE LOG YES. Customer changed the load to SHRLEVEL CHANGE LOG YES. It worked, but the Elapsed Time increase 28% and the CPU consumption increase 821%. Is a huge difference.
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration