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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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capabilities option for saving to external file system.

We have jobs that save to an external file location and then automation, but had users also saving to this location who should not be allowed to. It caused errors with automation. There is no option to stop users from doing this.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Build SQL Statement with host variables

Let’s review this scenario. You just implemented a new COBOL program into production. But some users are not getting the data they expected. You finally realize an SQL statement you are running is not returning any rows. You’re sure the statement ...
8 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

We need a connector from Db2 zOS to AWS DynamoDB, please, with sugar!

There is no straightforward way to use IIDR to replicate from Db2 zOS to DynamoDB on AWS. I think many customers could benefit from this additional capability.
8 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Add function to translate TM1/PA or Excel serial date numbers to datetime values

Currently, there is no built-in function within Cognos Analytics that allows for converting Excel or TM1 serial date numbers to their respective datetime values.We can partially emulate it if we're just using dates by using the _add_days function ...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Make serial date translation consistent between cell formatting and rule/TI functions

By default (UseExcelSerialDate=F): Formatting a numeric element as a date uses a Microsoft Excel serial date (Jan 1, 1900 as a base date) Rule and TI functions to convert a serial number to a date uses legacy TM1 serial dates (Jan 1, 1960 as a bas...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Backup Failure Alert

Having a push notification of a failure of a business critical event would be very convenient. Currently we would need to sign in to the console on the same frequency as the backup to ensure that it is completing successfully. If we received an em...
8 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Display breadcrumb trail on Dashboard Navigation Paths

When using Navigation Paths in a visualization on the Dashboard, users have to remember the path they drilled down and around. There are no indications on the visualization.
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration

Automated Data Quality Assessment

This feature would enable users to identify and address data quality issues within their datasets seamlessly. The system should perform checks for missing values, outliers, inconsistencies, and other data anomalies. It could also provide suggestio...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

Protect switching SSM log levels from INFO to ALL more and add CLI to query current log levels

Switching from SSM log level INFO to ALL has the potential to slow down the cluster signifantly. It has caused two S2 (S1 is highest) in the last 3 years. Both were due to human error due to lack of knowledge (not knowing about the impact of it, o...
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Planned for future release

Planning Analytics is not scanning downloads for known malware

My idea would be that Planning Analytics would scan files which are inserted and to the system in such a way that there is no more security risks. Hence people cannot be infected by malware through Planning Analytics.
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration