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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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Create Datasets/Dashboards from an existing Cognos Report

Create a dataset directly from an existing Cognos report and refresh it on a schedule.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

For the -12.. Conversion errors, please specify the column name.

It is quite hard to find the column that contains a wrong value in update/inserts statements with many columns in case of such an error message. For other errors the column name is in the sqlca structure. Why is it missing for the conversion error...
9 months ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Function Lookup UI for Calculations In Data Modules and Dashboard

Need a good function lookup UI in the Data Module and Dashboard tools, like exists on the Report tool. That would make it very easy to see what your choices are, and how to use them. Right now, there is no UI. Just an expression editor. You need t...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create INDEX and SKPT lock. DDL and continuous availability.

Working in a banking 24x7 environment without any maintenance window our concurrency issues with DDL changes are increasing more and more everyday as our workload increases. There are some concurrency problems that we think it should value the eff...
about 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Online BAR from pureScale to non-purescale

There are many cases that a database on the purescale cluster is needed to move on non-purescale instance. for example,backup, development or DR system . However, oracle does support this.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / pureScale 0 Not under consideration

Add parameters to SubsetMDXSet and HierarchySubsetMDXSet to allow invalid/null MDX expressions

SubsetCreateByMDX has a parameter to allow MDX expressions to save even if they evaluate to null or invalid. There should be an equivalent parameter added to the following functions - HierarchySubsetMDXSet - SubsetMDXSet Reason is a lot of times s...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

ViewSubsetAssign should update the underlying vue file

ViewSubsetAssign should update the vue file on disk. The reason is on server restart, it uses the vue file to render the view.
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

CP4D - Restrict multiple users simultaneously opening the same flow to make changes

Customer is using 4.8.1 version of CP4D and actively using DataStage and WS pipelines. Below scenario is for both DataStage flows and Watson Pipelines as well. Currently multiple users can simultaneously open the same flow and make changes without...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Planned for future release

Save HTML report to file system in HTML format and not MHT format

An HTML report is displayed optimally for the computer screen. Therefore you want to store the HTML report in the file system and make it available to your employees. This report will be saved as MHT file. In the company, Internet Explorer is no ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Manage TM1 instance administration programatically (on cloud)

Currently on cloud, there is no way to manage the start/stop of TM1 servers programmatically. The only way to stop/start an instance is by going through PAW Administration or schedule an automatic restart by asking the cloud ops. On premise, we ha...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration