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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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Reorg a data partitioned table with non partitioned indexes online

Currently a data partitioned table with non partitioned indexes can not be reorged online, even the latest V11.1.2.2 can not do this.
over 6 years ago in Db2 / High Availability and/or Disaster Recovery 1 Not under consideration

MapBox map extensions for report creating

There is no possibility to change MapBox options like:- set the Colour scale / point scale- change the Map presentation- create different layers for the regional analysis- change the point symbol These options are required for a better Map Intelli...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add unique user column to Cognos Audit database

The Cognos audit database only tracks a user the COGIPF_USERNAME. Having a field that is always unique and les likely to change such as an institution ID or email address would enhance audit reporting. It would also help avoid issues where users h...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow non-https URLs in dashboard

Cant add an http URL in the dashboard only https. This prevents adding intranet URLs and also known safe http sites
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Transformer in Cloud for Clients building against DashDB

Currently customers that are building Transformer PowerCubes on premise against DashDB in the cloud are forced to leverage IQDs (32-bit) due to the excessive round-trips of the data when using DQM data sources (64-bit). This is necessitating a slo...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Security enhancement - support of roles for GRANT SETSESSIONUSER privilege

After the change of the security setup in DB2 database to a role based model there is still a part where some rights can only be granted to groups instead of roles. This forces admins to maintain to sets of security setups making a complex Task ev...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Cognos integration with Spark

Support Spark as a data source for Cognos Analytics
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Parallell hierarchies in extended dimensions

Today you can just have one hierarchy when it comes to the 4 different extended dimensions. That is a problem when we compete with competitors. Due to that the storing is on the lowest level couldn´t it be possible to have parallell hierarchies? ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Enable HA/failover functionality at instance level or for groups of databases

DB2 performs failover only at the database level. If a group/set of databases are related, e.g. used for the same application, those databases should ideally failover together, but under the current design, those failovers have to be done individu...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

External Application Server support for Cognos Analytics 11

Cognos Analytics 11 has taken off external application server support for its application to be deployed on, till Cognos 10.2.1 we had been using WebSphere ND to host the p2pd and now WebSphere Liberty is being offered out of the box as the only o...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration