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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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Data Module refresh/update data

Currently when you want to update the data for a table in a data module you need to drag it on top of the existing table. This is clumsy. If you are updating from a shared data module the work done in the share module this is lost in the refresh
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

In the 'License Scheduler' product, monitor only necessary features instead of all

Hello, sometimes, we encounter slowness (freezes) on LSF jobs scheduling due to big slowness in licenses monitoring (lmstat) from License Scheduler because license features used for some resources under LS management are part of license services m...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 6 Delivered

Requesting an option to control whether the job (high availability load) should run or fail if an accelerator is unavailable

In today's environment, HALOAD job fails if one of the accelerators is unavailable, and it impedes table data refresh on all accelerators in the job. Allowing HALOAD job to continue execution by skipping the unavailable accelerator will mitigate t...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Delivered

PAW: drill-through view doesn't allow Set Editor to be used

We created drill-through processes, rules and views to allow users to drill to another view. We found that such drill-through views which are opened as a result of a drill action, do not allow user to open Set Editor in the dimensions of the view....
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Improve implicit casting

Since V10 there is implicit casting, which is one hand a good feature, but on the other hand can lead to big performance problems. Improve the implicit casting so that the resulting datatype is indexable, e.g. make SELECT ... FROM T1 WHERE Integer...
about 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Addition of loop formula for import spec design on CC Web

Controller Web cannot currently replicate the Controller Classic client for loading data that crosses multiple columns. For example, where a data file contains 12 columns relating to 12 months of a budget file, this can be loaded on Controller Cla...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Delivered

When editing a report query, show query name

In Cognos 10 Report Studio, when working in a report query you could see the query highlighted in the query toolbar panel on the left side of the screen. In Cognos Analytics, the query starts highlighted, but as soon as any data item in the query ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Cumulative Totals in Dashboards, Data Modules and Data Sets

Currently, Cumulative Totals (running total, moving total) are not possible in Dashboards, Data Modules and Data Sets. Please add them.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Missing prompt-functions in report using a data module

As stated in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/11.1.0?topic=dmfm-framework-manager-features-not-supported-by-data-modules, some reporting functions are not supported with a data module as source for a report. The "Select & search pr...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 3 Delivered

Hard Delete of Data from OpenPages

Currently any data that is deleted from OpenPages either via the UI or API is a "soft" delete, meaning the data is not deleted from the actual database tables. Furthermore it is not possible to delete data from old reporting periods. There should ...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Delivered