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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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badmin ckconfig with -f switch to check lsb.* files individually

When we run “badmin ckconfig” – it checks for all batch files by default.It would be great If I can check only for a certain file instead of all lsb.* files – e.g. $ badmin ckconfig -v -f lsb.queues Looking forward to such a feature.
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 4 Not under consideration

LDAP Alternative

Use of MS Graph connections using an Azure service principal as an alternative to LDAP.
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 4 Not under consideration

Optimization access paths currently used for SELECTs should also apply to UPDATEs (and DELETEs)

Currently, as I write a SELECT query with a correlated Sub-select (and no other predicates), I see that the optimization for that query uses a non-correlated sub-select and the query runs very fast. But, if I use exactly the same predicate, but wr...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

For Full Installations set the default to offset by 100 instead of 5 when Port 9300 is in use

For Full Cognos Analytics Installations, offset the port by 100 when the default port is used. See this IBM Support topic for more information: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.doc/c_...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Download/List an asset from catalog from HTTP API

When using the watson APIs to retrieve assets, it responds asset metadata only. As a data engineer/scientist, I need to: List URIs of available data assets from a given catalog Download asset content from a given asset URI/id It will benefi...
almost 6 years ago in watsonx Assistant 2 Not under consideration

Native SP needs to be dropped and recreate for SQL TABLE UDF changes

When SQL TABLE UDF is created and used by Native Mode SPs and the SQL logic in the function needs to be changed, the native SPs needed to be dropped and recreated for the logic to take effect.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

PAW - Share private subsets between users

(See attached file for more information) Idea Details: Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, End-users use private subsets all the time. For example, they track the progress of their top products by saving them int...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW - "Remove" calculation in set editor should remove calculation from the query and not only from the current set

(See attached file for more details) Idea Details: Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, End-users create calculation all the time in PAW views. When they don’t use it anymore, they simply remove the calculation fr...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW - Store user defined calculation

End-users create calculation all the time in PAW views. However, they have no way to save these calculations in case they want to use it in another view. There’s no workaround, they have to re-create the calculation every time they need it. I've a...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Cognos Planning Analytics rounding issue

In a case submitted to IBM: TS008741229 my team discovered that due to the design of Planning Analytics in terms of how it stores values (IEEE-754 Floating Point Double format) we came across scenarios where PA would not round correctly and hence ...
almost 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Future consideration