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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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Processing Batch Number vs Inbound Batch Number - all components to use Processing Control Number for Consistency

Please use the processing batch number across the board. TCR and Amount Keying appear to be the only components that use the inbound batch number while all the other components use the processing batch number.
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Not under consideration

Make calculated measures works with auto-generated members in cross tables

When using a calculated measure coming from a Dynamic Cube as sub-column of an auto-generated member (E.g. "Year to date Change") in a cross-table, the output results are calculated wrongly. For "not calculated" measures, the output calculated in ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Data Asset list in Watson Studio shows different assets for different users for same project

While Florian and me were testing how to collaborate within the same Watson Studio project we recognized that he saw a completely different Data Asset list in the exact same project than me. There's no obvious explanation of why he should see a di...
over 7 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

load data from object storage via official swift client

IMHO, the current code snippet for loading data from swift container is confusing. I understand those python code is a vanilla implementation of keystone v3 authentication plus getting object from swift without any third party library. Comparing...
almost 8 years ago in Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Improvement of “Log report - Import of External Data”

1) After importing flat files, when we preview the log report on discarded rows it would a lot more easier to find “problematic” row if not only account number was shown, but also its name (Account structure consists of more than 2k items, can...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Enhancements for "hostsetup"

hostsetup script should be enhanced in the following ways:1) Naming of the startup scripts for SysV init and systemd should be consistent.2) Script should provide option for installing /etc/lsf.sudoers.3) Script should detect /etc/sudoers is prese...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Ability to set concurrentAccessResolution when methods executeBatch() and executeQuery() are invoked from java.sql.Statement

Our database configuration has CUR_COMMIT = AVAILABLE. With this setting, you need to explicitly request for currently committed behavior to see the results that are currently committed. When using the IBM Data Server Driver for JDBC and SQLJ, thi...
about 9 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Lock LSF daemon's memory pages to prevent swapping them out

As part of the discussion about the which NICE value should LSF daemon use, another idea to improve LSF resilience and consistency came up. See the PMR related. LSF daemons should never send pages to swap. When this happens, and a fix pack replaci...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Dynamic SSM Resource Group History Files to SFS

Dynamic SSM resource groups work well in Symphony 7 but for one issue. By definition a dynamic resource group does not contain management hosts but consists of regular compute hosts. These hosts do not know of the shared file system where session ...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 3 Not under consideration

SPSS statistics - Problem with mixed Output to word-document

Until version SPSS 15 the output from SPSS to WORD was with format for pictures with "Enhanced Metafile (*.EMF)". The result in WORD was excellent as good as in SPSS. Since version SPSS 16 and later the format ist "PNG". With this format the quali...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration