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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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Additional TI Functions

Add additional TI functions to perform repetitive tasks. For example clearing a section of a cube. There a number of TI libraries that have been created to simplify such tasks. It would be good if this type of functionality can be consolidated as ...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Change VEMKD Behavior when unable to access vemkd/container/event file

After receiving RFE 145547 (patch build 563255), there was an occurrence where VEMKD continually restarted due to not being able to access the $EGO_CONFDIR/../../kernel/work/vemkd/container/event file. I'm requesting a similar patch to RFE 145547 ...
about 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 2 Not under consideration

Azure SQLMI Target - Support for "redirect" connection type

IBM CDC replication for Azure SQLMI target currently does not support "redirect" connection type. According to Microsoft documentation, redirect connection type is recommended for Azure SQLMI database connection in order to maintain low latency an...
about 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Is a defect

Parameter to limit the size of the workload log

In a configuration file or in Cognos Configuration, there will be a parameter that limits the size of the workload log of the Dynamic Cube to a maximum size. If the maximum size of files is reached, no more information is written to the log worklo...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for Oracle context index accessed via "contains" operator

Would like reporting to be able to pick up and utilise an Oracle context index via the CONTAINS operator. Currently, Report Studio (and Query Studio) will convert a CONTAINS in the where clause to a LIKE, throwing away this Oracle feature.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Optim z/OS Install CLIST maintain proper buffer pools

I would like to suggest that the installation panels for Optim be changed to allow for separate bufferpools to be entered and retained for tablespaces with 4K and 8K page sizes. Currently you enter a buffer pool for tablespaces and another for ind...
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration

PA Workspace books - Conditional filtering based on values.

Currently only "Top or bottom filter can be applied on Members, Percent & Sum. Would like to have additional Conditional filtering feature which can be applied on any Dimension element(numeric/string values) of a cube-view.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

On prem DQM cube builds should retrieve data though local network and not through the cloud.

For Cognos Analytics Cloud , the Transformer Cube builds that happen on-prem at the customer should retrieve data using a direct connection to the database instead of retrieving that data through the cloud.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable download button in Knowledge Catalog

When cataloging data assets from COS, users are given a 'Download' option to bring the data out from the catalog and store locally. There should be an option to enable/disable this functionality provided to administrators of the catalog and the us...
about 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration

Providing more easy way about mapping of Dimension Alias Name and Locale

When we use TM1 cube as BI data source,we need to map Dimension Alias Name and Locale in Meta Data Wizard of FWM.If there are many dimensions,it is hard to set up them.So the customer want more easy way for setting up it.(Importing from csv etc...)
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration