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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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Teradata Temporal Table Support

For a Project called SRS (reconciliation Ledger with Finance & Risk & Liquidity, 10,000 Users) , BNPP uses Cognos BI on top of Teradata. Teradata introduced a new data type (PERIOD) and associated constructs and methods to perform temporal...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Integration with Google Docs G-Suite

Please provide a tool similar to CMO (Cognos for Microsoft Office) that will enable integration with G-Suite tools Google Sheets and Google Slides for Google Office.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Upgrade needed for scala 2.12 in Spark 2.4.7 / Spectrum 2.5.0

Requirement for users to use scala 2.12 compatible feature in spark 2.4.7.
almost 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 1 Not under consideration

Support for functionality to retrieve job logs via REST API

Currently the DataStage Flow Designer REST API does not have a function to retrieve logs upon job completion. We would like to see such functionality added, similar to the DSJOB -logsum and -logdetail option. Thank you!
almost 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Improve performance of DB2 BLU SQL with the GROUP BY subquery

Our customer newly built the DWH system using DB2 BLU.But certain SQL's performance is extremely bad.Problem SQLs are with the GROUP BY subquery and the SET clause subselect.STSC says it‘s a matter of architecture, not a problem and they offered...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / BLU Acceleration 0 Planned for future release

Ability to Change Table space page size during Redirected Restore

Hi,I kindly request for having the ability to change the table space page size during a redirected restore operation.Thanks
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

form Lock enhancement

Currently on every monthly closing we need to run DB optimization for form lock issue and waste lot of closing time
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Dynamically Defined Reorg Mapping Tables That Use An Implicitly Defined Database

Currently, the implicitly created database works great because every instance of a mapping table is in a separate database.This avoids any possibility of database lock contention across multiple concurrent instances of reorg.The downside of the im...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Alert user about abnormal tablespaces on standby

In a HADR configuration typically customers use db2pd -hadr on the standby to monitor the state. On the standby if there is a problem with one of the tablespaces it'll be marked invalid and future log records against the tablespace will be skipped...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

Allow Rich Text Source Type to be External (Markdown or HTML support)

Problem We have started creating a pre-report page that includes methodology, links to issues (we use GitLab), links to other reports, and most important highlights from the current report. When adding the details to the first page, we use the "Ri...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration