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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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Allow certain Table ALTERs when Table has defined View(s)

Allow certain Table ALTERs to be performed if the Table has a defined VIEW. The attached file contains the Table DDL and ALTER statement for this RFE's Use Case.
over 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Attachment of supporting document to journal

There is no functionality to document journal or/and to comment lines in a journal in Cognos Controller. In order to attach supporting documents to journals, the client requested to have that functionality available. It is required to have the com...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Re-orientation of row selection in grid Dashboar

We have a dashboard with cross filters and table grid with rows. Whenever we select some row in table grid, its get highlighted. When we select some other cross-filter which can accommodate that particular row ( cross-filter can drive this grid ),...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

INTERACTIVE SEND BY EMAIL - If the size > defined smtp limit -> then send only the URL/LIN

launching interactively a reportselect prompt if any then choose "select a delivery option"If send by email is selected then there is no option to select only the URL not the attached report the issue is that for report whose size s above the thre...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Reference to undeclared column should result in RC08, instead of RC04

In the COBOL program an INCLUDE statement is used where a DCLGEN is declared. The copybook ZSTBF02 is attached. When the COBOL source contains an SQL statement where a column is used which is not declared in the DCLGEN, a warning is issued in the ...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Performance issues when trying to open menu-window by right clicking

We noticed that trying to open the menu-window by right clicking for example on the table shown in attached pictures, the system takes a long time to show the menu-window. Looking for the root cause, during our tests we monitored the performances ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

content store not using bind variables causing system issues.

This is to avoid hard parsing that causes performance degradation and un-necessary shared pool usage. Please see in the attached spreadsheet, there are 230 SQL statements that are originated for the cognos content store schema. Any application not...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Agent shouldn't run email Task if any of its Previous- Run a report(Task) failed

Ex: Agent for weekly reports. The above agent has 3 below tasks : Task 1: Run a report : Report A Task 2: Run a report : Report B Task 3: Send an email: Attach output of report A and report B and send to recipients. Issue: If task 1 executed succe...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

Openpages: Copy functionality for resources maintained in library.

In Openpages users have got an option to copy the answers from previous assessment. This works only if the questions and resource(process or resource) which are present in the assessments ( from where its being copied to the assessment its being c...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 2 Future consideration

Parallel index creation for partitions of a partitioned-table(RIMS)

[JPMC EDW] Currently, a create-index statement with the PARTITIONED clause will process each partition sequentially. Ideally DB2 would perform this with some degree of parallelism. Currently, this can be accomplished by detaching the individual pa...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration