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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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Possibility for user to select storing dataset as parquet-file or as db2 dataset.

We are having issues with db2 datasets (Some datasets originally stored as parquet files can not be stored as db2 datasets) while evaluating this new feature. In meantime users can not create new datasets to production.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Is a defect

Support Cert Based Authentication for ObjectManager

Currently, ObjectManager does not allow for Liberty to use Cert based API authentication. To support cert based security requirements, ObjectManager needs to support calling a .crt or cert file as a parameter/password rather than only a simple str...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 3 Is a defect

Interoperability of Cognos Controller excel files with other excel documents and speed

Two issues that reporting entities have faced while working on Cognos excel file: a) Slower speed and system crashing while entities reports their financial information during the peak time. b) Unable to save Cognos forms when multiple non-Cognos ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

IBM Datastage job migrated from V11.5 to V11.7 and use the Azure File System for storage account

We have migrated our jobs from V11.5 to V11.7 environment and uses soft link to Azure file system (storage account) for users input/output files. users are not allowed to drop files on server local system due to Azure server restriction on our env...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 3 Is a defect

Automatic extension assignment to output file on DR

When we output file on current version DR, it might be happened output file doesn't have extension. When we changed file name on "Edit output" (fig.1, fig.2), it is possible to output file without extension. And when we changed file type, extensio...
over 5 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Is a defect

Purge utility configuration parameters enhancement request for FTM V3.0 on z/OS

The current (FTM V3.0.0.4) purge utility requires changes to a properties file, which in a production environment, is restricted. The purge utility can also benefit from re-design to allow additional configuration, delivering improved usability.
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Is a defect

Unable To Insert Dataset to Dashboard in the analytics projects when Dataset file name includes SJIS characters such as Japanese.

When Dataset which file name includes SJIS characters such as Japanese, inserting the dataset into Dashboard in the analytics projects goes to fail. If Dataset which file name does NOT have SJIS codeset data, it successfully inserted. So it should...
about 6 years ago in Watson Studio 0 Is a defect

Skip relationship with Esperanto terms

When using the "istool" command for glossary import, if in the .xml file that is imported there are relationships (Synonyms, Has A, Is A etc) between terms also present in the xml file and other terms that are not in the xml file nor on the target...
over 4 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 6 Is a defect

No Drill-Down information exists when language is for example RU

In import file customer use in one column account name in russian. After imported Controller Web shows "No Drill-Down information exists" message. entire_row column in wdrilldowdetail18 table: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><java v...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

need to fix security breaks in Apache web server

Our internal security scan has found couple of Breaks related to configuration in Apache web server used for CA v11.1.1. Our question is, do we have plan to fix them in future releases or we will need to submit enhancement request in order to get ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Is a defect