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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Prevent immediate reflection of PARTITION key changes

When changing partition key of PBR using ALTER TABLE ALTER PARTITION, it may take effect immediately without AREOR status under certain conditions, so please provide an option to allow PARTITION key changes to be reflected in the AREOR state upon ...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DGTT - declare and use in one SQL statement (basically, this RFE is extension to syntax and functionality of DGTT)

Sometimes we use DGTT to hold complex result sets with many columns. We must DECLARE the DGTT first… and then second, INSERT into the DGTT The DECLARE requires us to think about each column name and type if we list them explicitly.OR. We can DECLA...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

SQL Generated by Data Module - Pull only those fields used in a query, similar to how packages work.

When creating reports against a data module, the SQL generated pulls all the fields from the table(s) used in the query. This is not ideal, as it is inefficient, and there are certain data types, such as bits, that cause issues in data modules. It...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dataset Date Refreshed property

Hi, can the refreshed date of a dataset be pulled into the data module so it can be displayed in reports or dashboards, so users know how current their data is? Similar to CubeDataUpdatedOn () for olap sources. We'd like to display the last refres...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

add freeze pan ability to work space screen

My client ask for freeze pan ability. The fact that you filter the data on the top ascrren and then you scroll down is very un convenient.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Alert users when an updated module or data set is available

Scenario: A user is building a dashboard using the Dashboard tool. At the same time, an updated data module is saved, making the users current data module obsolete. The user doesn't know this, however, and continues building their dashboard. The n...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Simple member-driven calculations in Dashboards

Currently we are able to create calculations in dashboards based on measures. This is fine if I'd like to know "Revenue - Product Costs". But what about "2012-2011" or "% deviation of Q3/2012 to Q4/2012"? There's no way to create calculations base...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard - without Editing the Dashboard, in Properties - show the PACKAGE/ Data Module source.

Presently, I do not see a way of knowing the Package / Data Module a Dashboard uses as it's source without EDIITING the Dashboard. It would be helpful if the full Breadcrumb path to the Package/Data Module is visible from outside of the EDIT optio...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Copy-on-Write for Namespace Separation/Tenants

With the new namespace separation feature in 12.1, you could end up with a lot of duplicate data. If tenants could be created in a copy-on-write or delta aspect it would allow for each tenant to only consume space for the delta, instead of a full ...
4 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Not under consideration

Support Multiple Drill Through Definitions based on a Parameter Data Item Value

Currently Cognos Analytics only support one Drill Through Definition to be defined on a Dashboard or Report Visualization. Should be able to define multiple Drill Through Definitions defined and based on a passed Parameter Data Item Value Cognos V...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration