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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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Copy Conditional Styles from one report to another

In case of developing a group of reports within one project the styles the design of data tables is supposed to be the same. And it is hardly convinient to create the same Conditional Styles in every single report when you have dozens of them. In ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

ALTER table DATA CAPTURE NONE not detected by IIDR QREP or CDC

If 'ALTER table DATA CAPTURE NONE' is executed against a table that is actively replicating, any changes made to the source data will not be captured or replicated until ‘ALTER table DATA CAPTURE CHANGES' is executed. This would cause the target...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Planned for future release

Ability to Custom size column and rows in Dashboard Tables Object

The table control auto sizes itself based on the data and is typically auto generating the ugliest possible format. Columns are way too big for some values, way too small for others, impossible to make into a small are to display some data. In 11....
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Create reference table for table with TYPE=H

We use reference tables extensively. We create them using the stored procedure SYSPROC.ACCEL_CREATE_REFERENCE_TABLES Unfortunately we cannot create them for history tables (TYPE=H in SYSTABLES). We want you to add that to the solution. We have not...
11 months ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Column Metadata on Overview Tab: Ability to modify the columns of the table view of an asset OR add a classification column to the table view

Currently, the only way to view column level classifications of a table on the Overview Tab is by clicking on each individual row and switching to the governance tab on the pop-up panel. It would be great to be able to view that classification at ...
5 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Planned for future release

SQLCODE -20528 SQLCODE20528N

CCB occasionally received SQLCODE -20528. As stated in DB2 CODES manual, this can occur while two transactions trying to update a row in system-period temporal table closely. A row being moved to history table can have sys_start higher than sys_en...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 6 Planned for future release

Enhancement to dashboard standalone-filters

Background: We implemented rolebased security via standalone-filter on a table in a dashboard and noticed a not so consistent behaviour. Note! This standalone-filter is active/enabled in the dashboard when user opens the dashboard. It is nothing a...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Refresh from maniframe to PostGreSQL extremely slow

Some large DB2 z/OS table are loaded daily. Those tables are needed on PosgreSQL side also. We use IBM Data replication to deliver automatically data to PosrgreSQL. When refresh starts I can see on log message: Target parallel refresh is disabled ...
almost 3 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Planned for future release

download dashboard output in excel

Our user creates Crosstab structure in powerplay, and they would need same flexibility, currently downloading data it in table and the converting it back in crosstab in excel will be a overhead. My concern is why IBM hasn't provided option to down...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Planned for future release

Improve Hide Summaries property for Tables and Crosstabs in Dashboards

In a lot of real cases we want to display some attributes but need an overall summary for the key figures. Between version 10.0.10 and 11.1.1 the property "hide summaries" has been introduced for Tables and Crosstabs in Dashboards. It allows to sw...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release