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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Export/Download PAW book in Excel format

When we export/download any PAW book, we have options like Image, PDF & PowerPoint. We would like to have another option for Excel.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Watch new versions - not available

The capability "Watch new versions" for saved outputs is not available (as it was in C10). The new C11 function "Subscribe" is not an adequate replacement, because the user should not create an own schedule.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unexpected DDF/RRSAF rollup records getting sent to accounting trace started with ASID trace qualification

This RFE is in response to IBM Service Request 64334 082 000. APAR PK12365 caused all DDF/RRSAF rollup accounting records to be sent to any active trace requesting IFCID 3 records regardless of trace qualification. This causes unwanted overhead an...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Add BEFORE and/or AFTER clause to ALTER TABLE

For the ALTER TABLE statement, it's relevant to add an "AFTER ..." OR "BEFORE ..." clause specifying where in the table the new column is to be placed. This statement component exists in DB2 for i and in certain other databases (like Informix and ...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 2 Not under consideration

No means to change log file directory for Cognos

Log file locations are under the profiles path. This is not acceptable for our support organization. We can change the cogserver.log, but for the remaining log files, the method to alter this directory is unknown.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

See more data about uploaded file

In the properties of an uploaded file, I can see the size of the file, but I would like to see how many ROWS in the uploaded file. If possible, I would also like to see the number of COLUMNS, or anything else gathered on data input :)
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automate restart of IIDR tasks when RRS terminates

We had issues with RRS recently which were solved via a maintenance cycle. During those issues, our IIDR Capture and Apply tasks failed and required manual restart. We have the option TERM=N enabled yet the Capture/Apply tasks were not restarted w...
over 6 years ago in Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Is a defect

PAW dimension editor, option to load all members

Add a pop up notification that offers the ability to load all members into the editor, instead of loading members while you scroll. The scrolling and loading is not responsive enough for large dimensions. I would take the trade off of waiting for ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Arabic support in InfoSphere Master Data Management in order to address market request

Several requests has been raised for Arabic support in MDM per MEA region & Levant Gulf area.
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Allow tooling users to be able to save queries inside of tooling

When iterating in Discovery, especially when experimenting with multiple and more complex queries it would be very useful to be able to save my query once I have it in suitable shape so I can iterate on another one without losing my work.
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 1 Not under consideration