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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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Add control setting to determine the additional text on the name of output files.

I have a report written in Cognos 11.  It runs on a schedule that saves it to the file system on the Cognos Server.  When they are saved there, it adds the “-en-us” to the end of the file name. For example: The report scheduled was name...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Standard simulation tool for the import

Most modern application providing import features do have a simulation option that enable to check what lines / data cannot be integrated because of rules. This enable the users to correct the import without changing the content (e.g. : the lines ...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Functionality already exists

Text Risk List Entries Having Option for Case Sensitive/Ignore Cases

We have clients who import attributes that are stored as text (Merchant Name) into their risk lists and the file they are importing comes through as all capital letters due to how their internal database stores the data. In order to account for th...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Under review

Upload/Append Schedule for a file

We have users that have receive upload files everyday and we would like to be able to Update or append to file using scheduling.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Automation of 'Update File' functionality

It would be great if you could create a job that auto updates a file I have in Cognos 11.0.5
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

GitHub Integration - Do Not Commit Deletes

Hi there, I'm a big fan of the GitHub integration for PA Cloud. We use it regularly to promote changes through our environments. I believe there is an error in the way commits happen through the PA Cloud interface. I would like a commit from the I...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review

Add more precision to Timestamp field- MPI_AUDHEAD table

We use MDM 11.6. The timestamp filed in MPI_AUDHEAD table stores time at second level and we want to see if we can add milli/micro/nano seconds to the field.
8 months ago in Master Data Management 1 Under review

Enhancement for LSN mismatch at startup

Database when activated does basic sanity testing and file structural integrity testing so the time taken to bring up the database is kept to a minimum. Currently, it cannot possibly check all the objects for sequence number mismatch. This is true...
8 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Future consideration

Redesign of cleanup on remote cursor load of LOB data

Customer migrated from DB2 9.1 on Solaris to DB2 9.7 onLinux. As restore is not supported between different endianarchitecture, load by remote cursor was used for datamovement. There was one single table storing about 400 GB ofLOB data (BLOB), tot...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Diff function for produce log records after VSAM files are REPROed

Many customers are using IDCAM REPRO to update/replace the whole VSAM file during a nightly batch job. The repro operation does not create records in the logstream. As a result, user has to perform REFRESH to resynchronize the target database. Som...
almost 5 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for VSAM for z/OS 0 Delivered