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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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External data log file on Web Imports

Enable similar log file capability on CCR Web as in the client. Ensure that web import log provides a view of all lines imported and not only the rejected items.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Extension to Temporal (TimeTravel) SQL

Avoid error SQL20524 RC 3 which is returned once you try specifying a column name instead of a explicit value like in following SQL:SELECT * FROM FACT INNER JOIN TA_DIM_BITEMP FOR BUSINESS_TIME AS OF colts ON fact.id = TA_DIM_BITEMP.id Just to cla...
about 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Preventing accidental singleton creation in Report

What has always been a struggle for new users in Report Studio is the ability to accidentally create singletons when dragging data items onto the report page. As we are training our Query Studio users in the Cognos Analytics Report we are seeing t...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable EXPORT to use a Storage Access Alias

Enabling EXPORT to use a Storage Access Alias will be very useful for DBA's using both on Prem and Cloud environments. It can only be used by LOAD/INGEST/BACKUP/RESTORE at the moment. Adding the capability to store data on object storage in the cl...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Improve Snowflake Error Behavior When Merge Enabled for CDC Data

When moving CDC data to Snowflake using the MERGE statement, some records in a batch may occasionally be invalid. The "continue" error behavior configuration for the Snowflake stage does not apply for MERGE statements, and the entire batch fails, ...
about 1 year ago in StreamSets 0 Not under consideration

Add the SECTNO value to any IFCIDS currently containing STMTNO information, ideally the IFCIDS 53/58/59/60/61/64/65/66

Add the SECTNO (SYSPACKSTMT) value to any IFCIDS currently containing STMTNO information, ideally the IFCIDS 53/58/59/60/61/64/65/66, minimally the 53/58. Without this information it is difficult for Strobe to match up the SQL statement that is be...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Improve Calculated Column error messages

Error messages need to be more informative. This is especially true for a product that touts Augmented Intelligence. For example: I used Create Calculation and called the function but I passed a parameter that was not a date type (my bad) The mess...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Information Analyzer Virtual Tables - Parameters

Problem: Currently within the Virtual Tables and SQL Virtual Tables there is no way to pass a Parameter externally within a Filter Condition. As an example if I am using a date filter in a VT or SQL VT that extracts the data for a given day or giv...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server  / Data Quality 3 Not under consideration

Data module: Sorting of query subjects and query items

Add sorting possiblity for query subjects and query items in data module editor like it is possible in Framework Manager.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data modules: context explorer

Data modules should have a context explorer like in Framework Manager. This is very useful for complex/bigger models with many relationships.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration