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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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Export to excel cell formats

When exporting SPSS Pivot Tables to Excel via OUTPUT EXPORT (or possibly other means also) if the cell value is less than 1 then in excel the leading zero to the right of the decimal is not displayed. So in Excel it is displayed ".12" rather than ...
over 10 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Delivered

Report book extraction in excel workbook instead of separate excel files

When running a report book in cognos controller, it would be helpful to have the possibility to generate multiple excel reports in a single report book in 1 excel workbook instead of all single excel files.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Request to have app profile level settings to limit number of tasks executed in a persistent service instance

In a large cluster shared by 100's of applications from different LOBs, quite often, the a bad application workload might crash or disable servers by:1) over consumption of system memory2) filling up the root file systems with core files3) etcIn t...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 2 Not under consideration

Transfering free value to another project in LS immediately

< Condition > Let's suppose,- There are two prjects in LS, prj1 and prj2.- There are two license features, lic1 and lic2.- There are two free lic1 and many free lic2 are remained.- Between prj1 and prj2, SHARE mode, 50%:50%.So, for lic1, prj...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 2 Not under consideration

Standby IDs should be

db2pd does not show corresponding STANDBY_ID on standby servers when using multiple standbys.For example: Invoking db2pd on the PRIMARY database shows the STANDBY_ID's (1=PRINCIPAL, 2 and 3 = AUX), invoking the db2pd on the related STANDBY's does ...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Use encryption of user and password for client/server communication as default

Default value of the dbm cfg AUTHENTICATION parameter is SERVER. Also the jdbc/jcc driver does not encrypt the user and password values in a connection by default. Two solution options:1. change default value for dbm cfg authentication from SERVER...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Adding members from the same hierachy to Context Filters removes Page Layers members

I have a case against the samples where we have two report pages each with a cross-tab driven by a separate query. On page 1 I add a few members from Order Method in the Page layers section for Page 1. Then on page 2 I add a few member from Order ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Report sharing functionality

Description of Request from customer: ""We currently have 100 Advanced Business Authors and end Septemberwe're going to add additional 50 Business Intelligence Users. This willprovide 150 users with content creation capabilities. The purpose ofthe...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

better logging for stack overflow, ulimit stack to small

With this PMR we were searching quite hard for the reason, why a 3rd-party-software was dying with segmentation fault in dynamic linked shared library libdb1.so We could only see:Feb 18 09:01:56 smtcb00254 kernel: [1270273.292859] os4x_licinfo[365...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Ability to exclude intents from disambiguation

Under following circumstances, an intent may not be suitable for being offered as a disambiguation option 1--Intent and / or corresponding dialogue is still being matured 2--A temporary issue which requires intent to be offline 3--Catalog intents ...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration