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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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Avoiding conflicts for multiple users working at the same time on a DataStage flow

With the web interface, two (or more) users can now work in parallel on the same flow. And the last one saving will overwrite all the work done by the others. It would be good to have a mechanism to prevent multiple people working at the same time...
about 1 year ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Comments in Saved Reports

The Enable comments in saved output versions check box, does not exist in 11.0.6.1 in 10.2.2 it is on the Report tab for Report Studio reports, the Query tab for Query Studio reports, or the Analysis tab for Analysis Studio reports, under Advanced...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Support TM1PRIMARYDBNAME function in PAW when working with the Multiple or More than one Tm1 Databases.

Support TM1PRIMARYDBNAME function in PAW when working with the Multiple or More than one Tm1 Databases. This functions works fine in TM1Web. However, does not work in PAW. Please add support for this function in PAW with the multiple databases...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Make use of Planning Analytic views in Cognos Analytics

Make use of Planning Analytics (PA) views in Cognos Analytics. PA views are a powerful tool for business useres to generate and modify there view on their business. In order to better integrate IBM Cognos Analytics & Planning Analytics into on...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create INDEX and SKPT lock. DDL and continuous availability.

Working in a banking 24x7 environment without any maintenance window our concurrency issues with DDL changes are increasing more and more everyday as our workload increases. There are some concurrency problems that we think it should value the eff...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 5 Not under consideration

Delete DB2 Old Archive logs without stopping DB2

We have a lot of old logs in our DB2 BSDS that no longer exist. I dont find a documentation that explain how to remove them without stopping DB2 and in the DB2 doc : https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=utilities-dsnju003-change-log-in...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

PAW Exploration View Custom Column Headings

PAW Exploration view, would like the ability to construct custom column heading names and arrange for cleaner reporting display. Often using a stacked column dimensions, the column heading may show repeated elements, or displaying stacked colum...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Advanced Network compression for DB2 HADR

Advanced data compression in network technique provide a way to convert data into alternate data formats which use less size. These techniques can be helpful to compress data to be transmitted over network at the sending side and then convert back...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Replication 3 Not under consideration

Provide an extract of transaction log to end-users in PAW in order to trace the history of users' inputs

The idea would be for example to add a function in the right click menu from a cell (from PAW views) to be able to contextually retrieve the history of data changes stored in transaction log (value before, after, user and date).
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Options for Trend/Baselines to Rave 2 Visualizations

Cognos Charts have multiple options for adding trend/baselines/target lines to Visualizations. The new Visualizations do not have this feature.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release