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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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Log parameter values earlier

System: Cognos Analytics 11Actor: administrator investigating report and query problemsDescription: Cognos logs parameter values AFTER the query has completed. This is too late for troubleshooting.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Permit blocking checkpoints on secondary nodes when raw tables exist on the primary node.

Currently we cannot issue a blocked checkpoint on a secondary (RSS in our case) when there exists raw tables on the primary node. We use raw tables heavily for admin jobs (mostly for the selection processing of archiving/purging jobs) to avoid swa...
over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Allow Wildcards in ADMIN_GET_TAB_% functions

Example: if one uses a query like this:SELECT ... FROM TABLE(SYSPROC.ADMIN_GET_TAB_COMPRESS_INFO('SCHEMA1', '')) WHERE TABNAME LIKE 'ABC%' The Function will run for all tables in the given schema and after that will filter the output for predicate...
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Setting for rows to buffer in Planning Analytics Workspace

When editing dimensions or browsing data via Planning Analytics Workspace, the grid continously loads to rows when scrolling down. This creates a very poor user experience and the idea is to make it possible to control the amount of rows/cells tha...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow values > 100 for MAX_LOG

MAX_LOG specifies if there is a limit to the percentage of the primary log space that a transaction can consume, and what that limit is.The range of the parameter is 0-100 percent of the primary log space. However, there are cases when a value >...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Log volume SYSUTILX

We have very large LOB objects (e.g. nnTBs). Due to the change (delete/insert/update) pattern of our applications, we have to use incremental image copies (IIC) very often to ensure recoverability for these objects. IIC for LOB objects generate lo...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Parameter for RECOVER utility to avoid invalidation of RTS-information

We would like a parameter (e.g. KEEP_RTS) for the RECOVER utility to indicate that real-time statistics should not be set to NULL. After a RECOVER we need to run a REBUILD of any indexes that have not been recovered, and the REBUILD utility uses R...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Support session parameters as a data security filter on data sources

Our CAP passes row-level security of a user's session to the Cognos application as session parameters. These parameters contain the full string of the where clause as dynamic SQL. While FM Data Security supports this technique, it would be benefic...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data driven text visualization

On dashboards there is often a need to annotate or comment on the data being displayed. For example, I may wish to indicate in a comment what percentage of my employees meet a certain criteria. This could be accomplished with a hard-coded string i...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

support for localized value separators in file upload

As self service BI is one of the major themes within CA 11, it should be easy for business users to easily upload any file (csv, xls) from their local environment into the CA11 on cloud, taking into account localized parameters from the customer: ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration