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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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Adding double quotes " for CSV files

Having the ability to have double quotes when exporting CSV files. This is required to use for Open Government Data. Option was working in Cognos 10.2.2, and currently no resolution for CA11.9. Example:* NOW: aaa bbb 123 * NEED: "aaa", "bbb", "123"
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

bhist should be able to parse job ids even if respective JOB_NEW record is rotated

Since the current bhist design requires JOB_NEW record to display a job's information, Opening a Request for Enhancement (RFE) on meaningful message in "bhist -f event_file" output when event_file only contains job records other than JOB_NEW, such...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

Enable chunk rename during log recovery

Whenever Informix performs a backup of the rootdbs, it automatically backs up Informix critical files (oncfg, onconfig & sqlhosts). When the Informix critical files are restored via "onbar -r -cf only -t <A TIMESTAMP>", it restores the l...
almost 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

Provide option to create VCD files compatible with Windows or Unix, Linux paths.

Please provide option in Transformer that specifies the VDC file to be created with specific Windows or Unix\Linux paths depending on the intended target platform for the Powercube, or both in a mixed platform environment.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Localizing the file used in the ODBC/DB2 Connectors for the "read select statement from file"

This in regard to PMR/CASE #: TS000099558 ISSUE:DataStage ODBC/DB2 connector with ‘Read select statement from file': file note accessible from Hadoop hi-We have a DataStage job with odbc connector and the select statement is set to 'Read select ...
almost 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Report Template for use with Powerplay Cubes in Report Studio

With the deprecation of Powerplay Studio in Cognos Analytics on Cloud, we need a template that can be used to quickly start a user creating a report. Powerplay Studio would automatically create a pivot table with the first two dimensions in the mo...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Request for a parameter in DB2 z/OS equivalent to the parameter IGNOREWARNINGS available in DB2 LUW into db2cli.ini file.

An SQL stmt accessing DB2 z/OS 10.1, via ODBC, receives a code +354; such a code produces an error inside the application.The following is the SQL stmt that reproduces the problem, run via a bach job accessing DB2 via ODBC:printf("DSN8OIVP SQLExec...
over 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

provide option for importing R script in R notebook

please provide option for importing R script in R notebook, so we can directly import R script from local system to R notebook which will help full for us to work with working script file.
almost 8 years ago in watsonx.ai 0 Not under consideration

Request For ESSBase native connector in InfoSphere Information Server (IIS)

As per our Business Team discussion, we need to get the ESSBASE native connector in IIS(V11.5) We Currently have IIS 11.5 Suit Installed with all products of ETL, Data Cleaning, Quality and Governance tools, Please provide ESSBASE native connector...
almost 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

SPSS Modeler Ditinctnode Create a composite record for each group specification

When we use "Composite" option in Distinct node, for each field in "Composite" tab, Modeler will create a corresponding aggregate operation behind the scene, based on the definition specified in "Fill with values based on". All these aggregation o...
almost 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration