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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Advanced query hint to use 'Group By' instead of 'Distinct' in SQL

In some cases, we would need an advanced query hint to use “Group By” instead of “Distinct” in the SQL per report or per query tree. We are aware of the DQM query property “performance.convertGroupByToDistinct” which is set to “true” by default (f...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Renaming of file attachments in Event Studio email task

We are using even studio to generate output from multiple reports and send them in single mail to with all attachments. When we attach report outputs, it is autometically adding locale information as suffix which users don't want to see. Also, we ...
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

File Management in PAW

In some use cases for planning it is necessary that a user wants to uploud or share a file for other. It would be helpful if we can offer something like a file explorer in PAW to upload different types of files so that every user can download them...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Feed Q Replication with your own LOAD keywords for automatic load

Recently we had opened a case TS013850174, which could not be addressed correctly b/c it requires an enhancement. Problem was as follows. Due to an error in our change management process, target table had a unique index, which was not present at t...
about 2 years ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability / Q Replication for Z 0 Not under consideration

Customize the root folder holding the user-specific PAfE folders and files

Planning Analytics for Excel / PAfE creates user-specific folder and files, for instance the user-specific configuration files CognosOfficeReportingSettings.xml CommManagerSettings.xml, in a user-specific folder "Cognos\Office Connection" which is...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

TI Process with File data source should allow local or server file selection

Currently in PAW when creating a TI process that uses a file as a data source, you can add files from your local machine or via a UNC/mapped drive. As PAW is web based, you are not working on the TM1 sever or possibly the environment in which the ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Append datetime to Cloud Object Storage file output

Report properties includes the ability to define the number of report outputs to retain. When saving report output to cloud storage, this property is ignored and the previous output is overwritten. Since end users don't have access to the Cloud Ob...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

TFUI: Allow association / disassociation of files in Files inline grid

In the Standard UI users can choose to associated existing files to an object. In the TFUI this is no longer possible. Please add the capability to associate / disassociate files in the inline grid view for Files in the Task Views.
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Delivered

Provide a command to display the logstream starting point timestamp

The log scan starting point for a LOGSTREAM is based on all files defined to that LOGSTREAM , that value seem to be also store on the subscription Bookmark. We will like that starting point to be externalized via a command , at this moment that va...

IBM PAC enhancements

In Input file selection field of IBM PAC job submission template, the file browser window defaults to a very small size. Could the file browser window automatically maximize? Small window doesn't display long file names completely
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 2 Future consideration