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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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Saved file/attachment from a Report Studio report

Requirement is to retrieve/download physical file when we click on respective column from Report Studio report
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to define a common theme (branding) across all the components of product suite.

Currently to apply JDA branding to various components of Cognos, we are to modify a bunch of files in various locations within the install folder structure. It is very cumbersome and a maintenance hassle for us every release. Cognos should have on...
about 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Uploaded file with frameworkmanager package

Now, when you create an uploaded file and you want to combine it with a framework manager package, you have to create a datamodule. We want to have it directly, a framework manager package with uploaded file without a datamodule.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration

systemd template unit files for Cognos Analytics

Currently, Cognos Analytics does not support an automatic service start via systemd template unit files on RHEL7 and 8. systemd allows us to control boot time dependencies with more granularity so tht we can control situation like start Cognos Ana...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

CDC for DB2LUW shall leverage HADR/pureScale features like WLB, ACR

From some of the recent experiences, it occurred to me that for CDC for DB2 LUW there could be better ways of handling HADR node/pureScale member failover. As we rely on CLI (native calls) to read source logs, the connection api (SQLConnect) does ...
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

CDC agent on z/OS for IDAA to handle very large transaction robustly

CDC risks bringing down partition when handling very large transactions.Change CDC to handle large transactions, eg by writing data to a spill file if allocated memory is not sufficient, like other CDC implementations.This CDC agent is part of the...
over 10 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

InfoSphere Data Replication for VSAM - request to remove the need of CICS

In some banking customers, OLTP server is pure IMS. They mix the use of IMS DB and VSAM files. The complete GDPS A-A solution need to replicate DB and VSAM to site 2. However, current VSAM replication need CICS been start in site 2 to apply change...
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

Enhance SPSS Modeler Solution Publisher Guide

User needing clear explanation of using the "User Input Node" on SPSS Modeler Solution Publisher In SPSS Modeler stream, "User Input Node" does not need any input data file (such as CSV). But in case of pim/par file for execution on Solution Publi...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Kanji organization names transliteration and Fuzzy compare

Currently, we use com.ibm.gnr.ja.Kanji for Kanji names parsing/transliteration.We don't have similar support for organizations, we can only compare kanji organization names as exact-match and no "fuzzy logic" comparison of kanji organization is su...
about 2 years ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 0 Not under consideration

ONCONFIG Parameter to Automatically tune OPTIMIZER for generic Workload (OLTP:DSS):

ONCONFIG Parameter to Automatically tune OPTIMIZER for generic Workload (OLTP:DSS): Currently the onconfig.std file is a mix of defaults for OLTP and DSS, often landing on DSS, for example OPT_COMP_IND , OPT_SEEK_FACTOR , OPT_GOAL, etc. With the d...
over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration