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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Easy means of creating page breaks was removed from Cognos Analytics; Please Add it Back

In C8 and C10 it was very simple to add a page break to your report by clicking on the data item and choosing a menu option. This shortcut was taken away in Cognos Analytics. In CA you must manually create the page set. This is completely inconsis...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Many Time and Relative Time changes needed in Cube Designer

Several Relative Time issues enhancements needed • We need the ability to hide any relative time that is automatically added when relative time is set to true. Some are not what the business wants and for some of them the %'s are not wanted eith...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Nulls should display correctly in Frequency Distribution

Currently in a Data Quality, Frequency Distribution for an asset created by legacy COBOL on mainframe, the field may contain spaces or main contain Low Values (Hex 00) character. Currently WKC displays any non-printable character as "Spaces". In t...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Not under consideration

Multiple transitions between a set of stages

Currently WF allows only 1 transition to be defined between 2 stages lets say from Stage A to Stage B. There is a need to allow 2 different actions (transitions) between these 2 stages i.e. from Stage A to Stage B. Based on the action selected, th...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 3 Not under consideration

Regular Expressions (regex) scalar function

The XMLQUERY function allows the user to use the 'fn:matches' XQuery function, which is great. Please see example UDF which does this... ~~~~~~~~~~--#SET TERMINATOR ! CREATE FUNCTION "UDF_STRING_REGEX_MATCH" ( SEARCHSTRING VARCHAR (50) ) RETURNS S...
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Refernce Data - Create rule functionality in Reference Data

When Customer is importing/mapping the reference Data set with Code and Value, He wants to have a flexibility to create a rule. For Example if the source file code does not contain 4 digit, wants to skip the value instead of importing to the targe...
over 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Not under consideration

Package Specific Object Library for Queries and Data Containers

Our team uses an Object Library with a set of standard components used across reports via layout component references. This includes things like logos, headers, footers, and statically defined prompts. This works well to keep consistency throughou...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

With RACF-exit, support auth cache refresh for RACF profiles with RACFVARS

Currently RACF ENF signals for the DB2 auth cache refresh are ignored if the profile contains a &RACFVAR class variable. This blocks the practical use of these profiles. In our case we have on one sysplex two different sets of DB2 subsystems(o...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

generate audit-records in table OPTIM_AUDIT_RECORDS

currently audit-records are created in OPTIM_AUDIT_RECORDS regardless of the audit-settings.
over 5 years ago in Optim 2 Not under consideration

Options for row/column dimension synchronize behaviour

To control what elements are shown on rows or columns of a cube view (without having to open set editor), it is already possible to drag the dimension outside the view and synchronize the cube view for that dimension. However, the synchronize func...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration