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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Inserting an element in a dimension at the right index

Sorting element names is difficult when the dimension is set on Automatic order and the sorting is done on an alias. Like Project IDs as principal name, Project Name as alias. You would like to sort on the Name most of the time. When the ID is not...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

When a DataStage job creates a dataset with a parameterized name, the dataset does not utilize the parameter value at runtime for naming.

When a dataset is created by a DataStage job, and the dataset's name is composed of a parameter, the dataset does not use the parameter's value at runtime to name it.
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Adding new retry mechanism for terminateinstances and other calls to AWS

Adding new retry mechanism for terminateinstances and other calls to AWS similar. Currently HF only has retry mechanism for "requestSpotFleet" and "describeSpotFleet"
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Need CI/CD and Version Control Tool (Git) Integration (MettleCI) option in CP4D.

We have been demonstrted Mettle CI solution for integration with GIT/Automatic testing/CI/CD for Datastage 11.7 and said it would be available for IBM Cloud pak Data as well in future releases of CP4D : We have below questions on this topic 1)when...
about 1 month ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

Stored Procedure support for Open Transactions and Tables used by these regarding Integrated Synchronization

Once in a while we will se a large delay in Integrated Synchronization because of bad applications not doing commit or doing rollback of large transactions. Sometimes we have to do manual intervention and remove a table before we get out of the si...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Submitted

auto summary's default value cannot be set as 'false' when using List object for Cognos report

I tried this on version 11.2.4 with the document for 11.0.12, but it didnt work. (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-set-auto-group-and-summarize-false-default-report-lists) Modifying "AutoListGroupSummaryBehavior" values to "false" in "Default...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Consistency between report and dashboard behavior - Edit mode

You have to save dashboard to alternate location to edit the dashboard if you don't have write permissions on that folder. This is different from reporting, I can still edit the report, but it will force me to save to a new location. I think consi...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

To and CC fields dynamic when bursting.

When bursting a report, need the ability to change the To and CC fields based on columns in report.
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Option to log unsuccessful connection requests

Our customer, a major bank, has information security guidelines which require logging of unsuccessful system access requests (failed logins). This should be able to be achieved by setting the TM1.Login logger to DEBUG. For clients using the C API ...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Allow creation of a job which can test a group of datasources, and e-mail the results to an admin

When maintenance events take place, it would be helpful to be able to schedule a job which will test all of the data sources, and notify an administrator if issues are present, so that they can be resolved proactively, prior to end-users reporting...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted