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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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Use Library tab in Admin to store JavaScript Controls

I'd like to see JavaScript controls in the library tab in the admin console. With the controls in the library, we would have a few benefits:1. Provide a description or usage manual2. In the properties of the control, you could have a "See document...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add permissions for queries

In customer setups we usually have to define "system queries" to be used by jobs, case investigation, hyperlinks. It is a very common scenario when users change such queries to perform some searches and break the system setup- hyperlinks showing e...
5 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 1 Future consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Make shadowing of objects a native function

In other tools like PowerPoint and Power BI, shadowing of objects is a native feature. Can you make this a native feature for Workspace. Currently, we can do shadowing by importing it as an image, but from a maintenance perspective, layering of th...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Provide ROWID addition for PBG to PBR conversion in V13 ALTER statement.

In V13m we get to convert PBG tablespace to PBR by a simple ALTER statement. However, we will be forced to look for a partitioning key by working with application team. In the mean time, in V12 we have a feature called "Hidden ROWID support for pa...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Automatically perform actions when synchronisation is broken on DataGate

In Data Gate, every time someone executes a utility not supported by the product (such as a LOAD without LOG or a schema change in the table) the synchronisation is broken.In these cases, we have to redo an initial load. In other products such as ...
4 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 0 Submitted

Automate the clean up of files in Cloud pak for data

In a customer case after only 9 month the file-api-claim had over 800k files and it was suspected that we had a performance issue. We disabled selinux relabling But we also ran the cron job cleanup script. But this was not enough. We had to run mo...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Submitted

The file-api-claim can become a bottlekneck due to all files converging to one PVC

In multiple customer cases, there have been issues due to high file cout. As workaround the selinux relabling disabling allows tome relief to this issue. Using file-api-claim could lead to performance bottlekneck in the future for very large envir...
19 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted

Configuration setting to limit size of temp files (uda*) created on Cognos server under temp directory

Why is it useful? In busy production environments when users have ability to create custom adhoc reports based on Cognos packages, there's a possibility that a report with missing filter condition could create huge temp files and fill up the disk ...
19 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

DataStage - SurrogateKey file stage - Database sequence for Snowflake database

On CP4D DataStage dataflow, Surrogate Key File Stage supports DB Sequence for DB2 & Oracle databases only. As we migrated to SnowFlake databse from Oracle we need to read the next val using a SnowFlake database sequence; But we do NOT see an o...
19 days ago in DataStage 0 Under review

Investment Elimination Template - restrict to accounts on the control table

When entering the investment elimination template/journal for automatic elimination of investments, the parent’s investment side of the investment elimination template is straightforward as the investment account is usually automatically selected ...
19 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release