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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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When creating a report without using a package, an error is thrown when using SQL Queries

When creating a report without using a package, an error is thrown when the SQL Queries component is used. One must add at least one package in a report in order to use the SQL item in a report. No package is needed when using SQL Queries, so leav...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

When sending PDFs by mail, dynamic setting of the mail header and attached filename

When sending PDFs or XLS by mail, a datetimestamp, parameter or burstgroupvalue would be preferred to be included in the file name and in the header of the mail
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Make life with data selections easier. For instance with Max Day. Or Rolling 50 days or....

Worked together with TD to use a data module to create calculations to find latest item and filter on that. No need for updating the data manually anymore. Creating a daily updated snapshot of that data can speed up querying. Still running-periods...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add toggle to change values from Axis into percentages

Add toggle to change axis dataformat in chart from values to percentages and vice-versa
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Correct filename when exporting report to PDF

When opening a report in PDF and try to download it, the filename is always "ext.pdf", no matter, which report is being opened. This issue occurs only in Internet Explorer, when doing the same steps in Chrome for example - the filename is "report_...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

zOS DLA not discovering IDAA

Would like to have the zOS DLA discover our IDAA boxes.
about 7 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allow an EDITPROC routine to be added to a table using ALTER

Update ALTER to allow an EDITPROC to be added to a table. Remember if an EDITPROC was added to a table or not in the catalog. If an EDITPROC was *not* alter added to a table (either none was specified, or the EDITPROC was specified at CREATE TABLE...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DecimalToString() function results differ when balanced optimization for Oracle is applied

We want to transform Decimal(38,10) into VarChar. DecimalToString() function transforms our decimals into string and they also get padded left and right with zeroes, which is default behavior of that function. However, when that job is optimized u...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

REBUILD INDEX utility enhancement

Enhance the REBUILD INDEX SHRLEVEL CHANGE utility to create a shadow copy of the index, then switch it over on completion.
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Oracle balanced optimization doesn't support timestamp data type with microseconds

Our business requirement is to store date fields as timestamp with microsecond precision. Balanced optimization for Oracle is not able to optimize transformer stage that contains date literals with this precision. IBM engineering confirmed that th...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration