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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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Invoke REST API from Cognos with Parameters

We are trying to build a report in Cognos that invokes a Rest API which executes the JSON Script to pull data for the report. 1. Connected the JDBC enabled Data Source connection in Cognos Admin by pointing to Rest API Successfully. 2. We are able...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Federation Support for Microsoft Access Database

Most of the retail customers use MS Access for maitaining small to medium databases and would like us to consider them while developing solutions. Unfortunately DB2 LUW 11.5.7 does not have any federation support for MS Access. We have to do a rou...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Federation 2 Functionality already exists

File Manager Open/Preview Files

With the removal of the Rich Tier Desktop services coming in September, we will need to transition to the File Manager for view all shared folder files. Currently, there is no method of opening and previewing files without them being downloaded. T...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

High availability for IMS CDC in a SYSPLEX environment

We are currently implementing CDC for IMS in our Production environment. This consists of 2 IMS v15.2 systems running on 2 different LPAR's, in a SYSPLEX. The OS on both are currently z/OS 2.3. CDC for IMS runs on 1 LPAR, replicating the LOGS o...
over 4 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Classic Change Data Capture 2 Not under consideration

Fix "Import column" stage to allow to properly validate numeric values

Data validation is extremely useful for any enterprise, but this stage is not working for numeric values, although it's the 'expected behaviour'. Validation for other data types already works as expected. But, not being able to properly validate n...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Expand and Collapse functionality asscociated with Grouping

Provide Expand / Collapse capability as base functionality for report development with relational data.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

PAW user profile settings

Based on our experiences we would like to propose improving the PAW user profile settings by two possibilities: Change the number of characters to indent TAB-key By default TAB-key currently indents only two characters in editors. Developers would...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Add "queued" status

When collecting information about current train runs, it happens that tasks are "running" but actually are still waiting for a GPU (see Support Ticket CS2171712). It is hard for a developer to know at which state the task actually is (running or w...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Machine Learning 0 Not under consideration

Real-time updates in Controller Web, for changes made in Controller classic, relating to tabs such as 'Reconciliation', 'Intercompany' and 'Status'

This enhancement request is linked to another one (https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.aha.io/ideas/BACC-I-275) - However, I was asked to created it (by IBM Support) because it is subtly different. There is a known limitation with Controller Web (se...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

Index Access for MERGE sql

The sql MERGE should simplify the life of a developer. Instead of implementing an insert update logic you could just use a sql statement with merge. In case of a merge statement is to update an index column this index can't be used in the access p...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 4 Delivered