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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.

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.

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Dashboard drill though changes

When I attempt to connect a drill through report to a dashboard, my only choices to pass to the drill through report are values in the dashboard. My drill through report has a prompt for Current, Official Report or Effective date, I would like to ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

A need for a differentiation between PARTITIONED and DATA PARTITIONED indexes to avoid DPSI misuses

Hello IBM Db2 development team, could you please pay attention to the following observation and idea for an improvement from one of our customers (Deutsche Bank AG): Background: In a world where IBM have been continuing to make the mainframe an at...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Modification of SCD Stage to allow custom date specification

SCD stage inserts new rows (type 2) with the effective date derived from runtime. This is sufficient for updated rows. We would like to specify a different date for initial records.
over 9 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Exposure Limit Monitor Start/End Date should allow for year to be specified

On the Partner Details screen, Risk Management/Exposure Limit Monitors- you can specify an Effective Begin Date (MM/dd) and an Effective End Date (MM/dd) but you cannot specify the year. In principle, the idea of having the ability to have monitor...
over 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Not under consideration

Add GROUP BY and DISTINCT to HPU RFE 118682

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=118682 The request is to allow HPU tool to support GROUP BY and DISTINCT SQL statement (be part of the hpu syntax diagram ) so that message INZU063I UNSUPPORTED SELECT wont o...
over 7 years ago in Db2 High Performance Unload for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Cognos BI to operate and co-exist with ipstatus conntrack "stateful "firewall" with "default" configuration settings

New Functionality requested with Cognos:When Oracle maintenance is required to be carried out there will always be a Cognos CS instance available. We're seeking for Cognos BI to operate in such a manner to ensure that it ipstatus conntrack table o...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow Future Values in Data for Time Series Modeling

A beer producer may want to incorporate the Super Bowl as an event in its week-based time series forecasts. The effect could be included in the source data as a flag field, in which 1's are entered for weeks in which the Super Bowl has occurred in...
about 6 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

View contents of iSeries source journal position table via a command

The CDC metadata on the source on the iSeries includes information on the journal receivers and sequence numbers being processed by CDC. Although not authoritatively up-to-date as the target is the master in this respect, this information is good ...
almost 9 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

Allow exclusion of columns from row compression to reduce overflows on updates

We have many large tables in our data warehouse that hold historized data records. There are four date columns:- begin of visibility based on processing time (BAT_BEGIN)- end of visibility based on processing time (BAT_END)- begin of visibility ba...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration