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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.

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.

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Optimizations of the "Send report by email" dialog

When creating schedules or run a report you can set options for sending report by email. Here are some suggestions for improvement for this dialog: 1) If we enter the first five digits of the user ID and click on 'Search directory', some users wer...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Allow the LSF Planner to ignore cetain select[] criteria

The current LSF Planner is unable to create a plan if the "bsub -R "select[blah>blah]" ./a.out" select clause does not match any hosts. This is very counter productive. For certain ELIM based resources such as 'freescratch', 'freetmp', etc. The...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Audit pkg and CM Tool

When auditing, it would be ne nice to create a report that contains the following data set information: date refreshed, size, number of rows, number of columns, and time to refresh. It would help us to troubleshoot any data set refresh errors and ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Developer Portal or Interface

Please add a developer portal or Developer interface so the developers can have access to the core API's and should be able to modify API settings according to their needs. Developer should be able to create and test "Custom skills tools" in the d...
about 2 years ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Delivered

Data sets based on cross tab

Currently data sets can be created based on "list objects". In many cases a cross-tab is needed and can be a very big help. In eg. Impromptu it was possible to create a "hotfile" based on lists or cross-tab. This option is needed in Analytics data...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Security Settings for Services based on User Groups and/or LDAP

Administering users can be quite hard when every single user must be set manually. Especially in large environments. In CP4D user groups can not be used to control access to services like Cognos, PA, Discovery and so on. It would be lot easier, if...
about 4 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Delivered

Update (or better yet remove) the NSS libraries for Windows

I'm creating this "idea" because I had opened a support case with a company called Deltek concerning one of their products that uses Cognos Analytics. Cognos does not properly report its capability to use higher strength TLS ciphers and signature ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Delivered

Improve performance of DB2 BLU SQL with the GROUP BY subquery

Our customer newly built the DWH system using DB2 BLU.But certain SQL's performance is extremely bad.Problem SQLs are with the GROUP BY subquery and the SET clause subselect.STSC says it‘s a matter of architecture, not a problem and they offered...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Planned for future release

MER - attribute to allow/not allow to create FIN Output messages in create queues

We need an attribute for MER queue settings (CT DnqERQueue) to allow or not allow the creation or editing of incoming messages (i.e. FIN Output) in unformatted view. Like i.e. attributes AllowDrafts, CHANGELOCALADDR. Background: Unformatted view i...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Not under consideration

Bitbucket integration - updating master instead of updating the branch

Bitbucket integration - updating master instead of updating the branch GIT related issues - Create a new repository with no folder structure. Use this GIT repository for a new Project and when doing push, it fails. - OCBC is planning to have all ...
over 6 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Planned for future release