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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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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Graphically show relationship between model objects and physical database objects

IKC needs to graphically show relationship between physical data model objects and physical database objects (e.g. tables and columns).
almost 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 8 Delivered

Sizing of crosstab and tables in dashboards

You should make customization of text in crosstabs and tables in Dashboarding possible. Right now they often take way too much room when included in dashboards. Would really like to be able to set font size, padding and other so the tables could b...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered
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Obtain the query plan of a running query

Many times a DBA is called to check upon a slow process. Most of the times those processes are running a slow query.Sometimes it's hard to know if the query is using the best query plan or not. A DBA can reproduce the query, but it it was prepared...
over 12 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 4 Delivered

Cognos 11 Dashboard - Ability to Reuse Report Elements

Ability to reuse elements (i.e. Charts, Tables, etc..) created using the C11 Reporting Tool and incorporate them into a Dashboard. (just like in Cognos 10)
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered

Instrument workfile high-watermarks in ACCTG

This would be useful to all business users that seek to tune their installation for best performance; specifically in the area of MAXTEMPS. Instrument IFCID 0003 and IFCID 0148 counter(s) to show the maximum amount of Workfile used by a thread (4K...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

Reorg pending after three ALTER TABLE statements is not useful in 24x7 environment

After three ALTER TABLE statements (depending on the clause, but an error can be forced by changing type from VARCHAR to CHAR ) table switches into reorg pending state. This state can only be resolved by an offline reorg.Additional problem is that...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 2 Delivered

Support ALTER ROTATE FIRST TO LAST for Integrated Sychronization

Right now, an ALTER ROTATE PARTITION on a replicated table will put the table out of replication. ALTER ROTATE PARTITION is a common operation on partitioned tables, being able to replicate these operations increase availability and usability of a...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Delivered

Indicate the last time a table was used with a query in IDAA to allow for smarter table management

Provide the ability to keep track of tables used by queries executing on IDAA. Keeping track of a access count and latest timestamp and exposing this as part of one of the stored procedure calls either on ACCEL_GET_TABLES_DETAILS, ACCEL_GET_TABLES...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Delivered

PAW: User friendly Multiple Selection for Header Dimensions including Calculation options

The process of selecting some elements from a header dimension, including the possibility to select the calculation mode for these elements (min, max, sum, average, …), in diagrams as well as in tables, is not too user-friendly. Current workaround...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 8 Delivered

Full EXPLAIN support for all types of trigger

With Triggers you cannot use the REBIND option OWNER on a rebind. Why not? Not even for EXPLAIN(ONLY). We must get the ability, like with "normal" packages, to EXPLAIN into another set of EXPLAIN tables. Further, if you are using Advanced Triggers...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 7 Delivered