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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Modify virtual table from UI

As a data steward I would like to have the possibility to modify a virtual table from the UI, without the need to run a SQL statement.
over 1 year ago in Watson Query 0 Under review

Improve JDBC’s SQLException Error codes

We have observed that, when we get an SQL Exception caused by different situations related to client-server communication issues, we always get an ErrorCode = 0 (((SQLException)sqle).getErrorCode()) For example, in case we have an open connection ...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Fields added to EXCLUDED FIELDS on an object should be removed from UI

Currently, fields that are not used or created by accident need to be removed from each profile and excluded from the schema. If you fully exclude a field from the reporting schema then it is still present in the UI but will throw errors to the us...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

WLM should support IDLE timeout threshold for activity.

WLM supports connection IDLE timeout threshold with CONNECTIONIDLETIME. Our customer would like to have IDLE timeout threshold for SQL statement activity within a connection with fine granularity. They periodically issue mon_get_activity and mon_g...
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Parallell hierarchies in extended dimensions

Today you can just have one hierarchy when it comes to the 4 different extended dimensions. That is a problem when we compete with competitors. Due to that the storing is on the lowest level couldn´t it be possible to have parallell hierarchies? ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Schedule Calculations

We would like the ability to schedule calculations. When they are set to auto-start it looks like calculations only run on an implicit save or new record. We're finding relatively dormant records are not having auto-started calcs run on them so we...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 3 Future consideration

Auto Start Play Stories

My company has several TV monitors throughout our factory floor we use display Cognos dashboards with performance metrics. We would like to use stories to show more information across multiple slides. One pain point preventing us from implementing...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support of stronger Ciphers

Customer wants that Planning Analytics supports the list of ciphers attached in the TM1 Application Tier (in the WLP, TM1 Web part) TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384_P521TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384_P384TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Adjust login messages in LSF Explorer for better troubleshooting

We are facing a strange behaviour with the messages for a failed login at LSF Explorer Server. There are three scenarios: The user is not able to the system on the server where LSF Explorer is installed - hence the user is not able to login to LSF...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Remove 'Excel Data' from RUN options

Case ID : TS000069372We don't want to provide the Excel Data option to the end user. Through Customization we were able to hide the 'Excel Data' option from the Edit Mode. When we use Run As option, the Excel Data still exists. We are looking for ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration