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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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


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Foreign keys to be able to use compound indexes.

With the following the existing compound index is not used for the foreign key and another index is required. This adds overhead with additional maintenance. create table p1 (t char(4) not null); create unique index px1 on p1(t); alter table p1 ...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

SMF data for use of SORTL and z15 Z Sort accelerator

Recently we have had some issues and queries around use of SORTL by Db2Sort and currently the only way to track whether SORTL is being used by Db2Sort is to scan every job and look for the message "CNK558I SORTL INSTRUCTION USED". To report on usa...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Sort for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Candlestick Chart Visualization

Provide a visualization for candlestick chart to show the max min and average of a certain metric across a selected dimensionality. Also provide the ability to sort a RAVE2 visualization by a metric that isn't part of the output
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics - Upload Group Membership

Within PAW, there is the ability to upload users via a CSV file and upload groups via a CSV file. However, assigning users to PAW groups is a manual exercise. Requesting the ability to upload group membership (i.e. mapping of which users belong to...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

CTAS locks syscat.tables

Reproduce Scenario and found to be a expected behavior while CTAS locks syscat.tables session 1 > create table Table1 as (select * from Table_2 ) with data; session 2, query tool > select * from syscat.tables; --> lock waiting
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Experiencing slowness in environment both in navigating and in running batch and interactive reports

Client is seeing slow performance in the environment. The environment was running fine previously. Reports are getting queued up and stuck in a pending/executing state.When running a single report client sees the prompt page take a long time to ex...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to send report output via email

Once a report has been run in a portlet (in this case a SharePoint Page Viewer web part) there is no option to be able to send the report output via email. The client would like this functionality to be added to the product (either via a button th...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Unable to create a percentage of the single rows instead of a simple total in a active report

It is impossible to create a percentage of the single row instead of a simple total in a active report. In a normal report it is possible to insert a query calculation into a cell but this is not possible to do in an active report. Enable the func...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos BI and TM1 Integration: New TM1 objects must be directly accessible from Report Studio

The most important TM1 objects must be implemented in a way a long-term TM1 customer would expect it: - Cubes AND a direct import of Cubeviews into the Cognos BI environment - Dimensions
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to leverage saved values in report views in a report booklet

Current product functionality does not allow for the inclusion of multiple report views with different saved prompt values in a report booklet. As confirmed by Report Studio PM:When Merge is selected parameter values that come from the booklet ite...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration