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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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Estimate time for archive

This may only apply for Retirement since we use all reference tables without SQL. It would be a nice to have if Optim could have a function to take an archive request and attempt to estimate the time required to archive. I see this as looking at i...
about 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Application Retirement 0 Not under consideration

Add to DB2 stage a z/os read method using DB2HPU utility

We currently want to improve data extraction process from DB2 z/OS database performance.It would be nice to call UNLOAD utility or DB2HPU using DB2 Connector Stage instead of using SQL queries.As the bulk load method exists to bulk load data to z/...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Setting to control the default option of Conflict Resolution when saving reports to file system

When we save a report to file system, the default option for Conflict Resolution is Replace. Since we want to use the Time Stamp option, we will have to check the option every time. We would like to have a setting that we can set Time Stamp as the...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Improve quality and trackability of (outgoing) HTTP system log error messages

Currently it is difficult to track a failed http message back to a case, because there are no shared ID between those logs. Best option you have is using the timestamps. Please provide an option to put a HTTP Message ID used in the System Log in t...
over 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

Enh: Ability to Maintain Different Versions of Bursted Active Report in Mobile App

The Cognos Mobile app looks at the StoreID metadata of Active Reports that are created in BI 10.2 and later instead of the file name. Multiple versions of the same report are bursted to the file system and then emailed to the iPad or Android user....
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Additional ssh keys

We would the like the ability to add additional ssh keys to the Cognos VMs via the Pure App console. We would like to scp files among VMs on the local Pure rack and other racks.
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Parameter to limit the size of the workload log

In a configuration file or in Cognos Configuration, there will be a parameter that limits the size of the workload log of the Dynamic Cube to a maximum size. If the maximum size of files is reached, no more information is written to the log worklo...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Open Login Window for CCR as soon as Excel File Opens

Dear IBM Team, we do have a customer, who would like to open the Cognos Controller Login as soon as he opens a Excel Worksheet. I've tried the approach vie Keyboard shortcut:Application.SendKeys "%(Y2)(Y4)", True but sadly the ammount of installed...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 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

Disable tm1s.cfg changes using Planning Analytics Workspace

Hello, We have many environment Dev,QA, UAT, Prod where we need to keep all environment in Sync. The Administration page in Workspace offer much more then changing the configuration in the tm1s.cfg file. A lot of the other features that doesn't im...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration