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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Update Java API to be able to run Cognos reports into Excel 2007 format.

The Java API supports the running of Cognos Reports but the Output Format for the report is limited to the enumeration types documented in the CognosOutputFormat class - which is CSV, PDF, XLWA, HTML, XML. To be able to run a report via the API in...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Future consideration

Support for DB2 ZOS

Certain components of CP4D such as Data Refinery and Watson Studio, since version 4.6 state they no longer support DB2 ZOS as a platform connection type. We have been informed by the help desk on multiple tickets that DB2 ZOS is no longer supporte...
over 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Future consideration

Changing Distributed Keys

In de new IDAA it took more than 6 days to change distributed keys, and then we cancelled the proces..it would be nice, that this proces can finish in max load time, in our case 33 hours. Why we need it , it could be in the future needed to change...
about 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability to create 'Folders' in 'Data source Connections' in admin portal

Please add ability to create 'folders' in 'Data source connections' in admin portal 'configuration tab'
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

have ACCEL_LOAD_TABLES switch automatically to full table reload

ACCEL_LOAD_TABLE jobs are generated with detectChanges="DATA". On some large partitioned tables more or less all partitions end up being loaded. The subsequent DELETE/REORG RECLAIM operation runs for + 12 hours and consumes a large amount of CPU. ...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Source DB CONNECTION should not be needed in an ETL project if its CONNECTION has been created in the CONNECTION section and run Data Discover process.

In the V2.1.0.2, user should be needed to create source DB CONNECTION in the ETL project even though the source DB CONNECTION has been created in the CONNECTION section without running Data Discovery process. (If Data Dicover process running for i...
over 6 years ago in DataStage 3

Options for controlling and securing email attachments

We need to have more options to control email attachment functionality. 1. Give administrators the ability to set access to email attachment option by group/role. 2. Give the option to prevent emailed report attachments when the report contains a ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automate ingestion and activation of users

Traditional best practice approach to security is to leverage the existing enterprise authentication provider. This includes using enterprise authentication group memberships to both allow access and allocate data security. With the PAW interface ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Information on Parse on Cognos 10/11 Cogserver.log

We are requesting on how the Cogserver.log is parsed to poll this data to our monitoring tools. Unlike the cogconfig_response.csv, there is not defined format for the cogserver.log. Automatically polling this information to our monitoring tools fo...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Exploration - Relationship Diagram Times Out

When an exploration relationship takes too long, it will throw a timeout error after exactly 120 seconds: "Your request to load the relationship diagram timed out". This prevents users from being able to see the Starting Points and derive insight ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered