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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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Filtering Catalogs assets by custom attribute values

In our current IGC setup, we have the functionality to create custom attributes and allows users to filter the catalog by these custom attributes. On the catalog screen, example users can select the database asset type and then filter results usin...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Delivered

Parameter Cache: Additional successful entries are getting created for the reports during the scheduled Job execution/individual report runs

Currently, we are able to view the entries for the parameter cache from appearing in the history in the below scenarios: We are able to see entries for parameter cache for interactive report runs in Administration, though interactive run history ...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add "label" for columns of Data Assets imported from connected database

Abstract: For WKC catalog, Data Asset imported from Database table, has columns with name that defined in database. It is better to have additional column attribute such as "label" that represents the column in on WKC Data Asset view. (see attache...
over 3 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Delivered

One solution for uploading/downloading physical files to/from Cognos Analytics on Cloud Environments

Provide customers the ability to self-serve the movement of required files directly to/from Cognos Analytics on Cloud in the same manner Powercubes are currently handled. Include files such as images, content, fonts, data drivers, certificates, ja...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

timeout option for log archiving sessions / db2vend on WINDOWS

We work with DB2 on WINDOWS and an external vendor (EMC Networker) for backups and archive logging. If network or the vendor have a problem, the archive logging forever tries to use the vendor process and in the meantime writes to a FAILARCHPATH o...
over 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Option to copy object location in Cognos

We have many reports that live many folders deep in Team content. In order to get the navigation path for a particular report, we used to be able to copy the bread crumbs displayed in Cognos 10 or there was a navigation path in the report properti...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

Allow "group commit" as other RDBMS

For high use OLTP systems, there can be a lot of I/O pressure on the logical log due to intense rate of logical log buffer flushing (most customer don't ant data loss so they use UNBUFFERED LOG). Setting BUFFERED LOG at session level would hardly ...
almost 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 3 Future consideration

Allow users to select multiple variables at once in the Compute Variable dialog to streamline the creation formulas without inserting each variable individually.

In the current version of SPSS, the "Compute Variable" dialog makes it unnecessarily tedious to calculate for example the mean of multiple variables. Users have to insert each variable individually into the formula, either by double-clicking or ty...
6 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

Statements Event Monitor should include UOW (transaction commit) to give similar capability as a db2 z/os trace

When trying to diagnose an online transaction problem, I could not find a way of tracing the transaction with an Event Monitor to include the implicit commits of the XA Transaction (XA-PREPARE, XA-END). I raised ticket a ticket with IBM (mentioned...
12 months ago in Db2 1 Under review

Ability to expand a Package and manipulate the items within that Package when added to a Data Module

In Cognos Analytics you have the ability to add a Package to a Data Module.It would be useful if we could expand the Package down to its Namespaces/Dimensions/Query Subjects/Query Items.Having the package expanded could mean that users would have ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration