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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Agent shouldn't run email Task if any of its Previous- Run a report(Task) failed

Ex: Agent for weekly reports. The above agent has 3 below tasks : Task 1: Run a report : Report A Task 2: Run a report : Report B Task 3: Send an email: Attach output of report A and report B and send to recipients. Issue: If task 1 executed succe...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Not under consideration

PAX Report Export Utility control

While trying to Export a Web report, there are options 1. Slice to Excel 2. Snapshot to Excel 3. Export to PDF. Can you provide the facility to disable the option 1 and 2 or is there any way to control the access to option 1&2 from the report?
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement regarding the .ftok file and the DB2 instance.

I will suggest the following:1. Let Db2 log a simple message 'The .ftok file is missing, last seen ' when the instance started.2. Also, suggest to execute ~/sqllib/bin/db2ftok or go ahead and execute it
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Schedule Default Format Sync Report Format

1. 在Cognos 10.2.1,設定排程時,預設的Format會跟直接執行報表預設的Format一致(ex. 報表預設執行為Excel 2007,設定排程時,預設的Format就會在Excel 2007)2. 在Cognos 11.0.11,ä¸...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Unable to have more than 1 user entering data for Investment Elimination Template (IET)

For shareholdings template and investment elimination entries, this window can only be opened only by 1 user at a time. User is in UAT stage and time is tight. Hence waiting to key into the Shareholdings register and investment template is not eff...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Operational Console Report generator tab.

The DSODB database which sits behind the Operational Console is a treasure trove of information. It would be very handy if the webpage allowed for some standardized reports to be generated. Such reports could be a PDF or Excel format. Data in the ...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

To be able to export Column Analysis from a specific schema from project1 to another IA project, project2, which also use the same schema.

Idea details: to be able to export analysis results of a Database schema /column allready performed in a proj1 , to anoter IA project using the same schema in proj2 Benifit: It would free up server capacity and respources as this task would just b...
over 3 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 2 Not under consideration

Microseconds not getting populated for target DB2 timestamp column

"CDC built-in functions cannot retain microseconds for TIMESTAMP target data type. I have a 2 vsam fields, vsam CHAR(10) field AS 2018/08/13 (yyyy/mm/dd) and vsam CHAR(15) FIELD AS 16:19:45.094690 (hh.mm.ss.xxxxxx). I am trying to map combing both...
over 7 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 0 Not under consideration

Ability to specify cores or exclusive host for Benchmark job

Currently all benchmark jobs submitted via RTM use 1 core. Also, one cannot specify node to be exclusively used via bsub -x. This allows other jobs to land on same node and thus tainting benchmark numbers
over 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 0 Delivered

Eliminate checking registry key "NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation" from pre-requisites check of IIS installation

We request to eliminate checking registry key "NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation" from pre-requisites check of IBM Information Server installation. It is a requirement of IIS installation on a Windows operating system to change the registry key to 0.Ho...
over 7 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration