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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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Add Tooltips for Various LSF Attributes

Today, on many Cacti pages, table headers include tooltips that explain the dimensions that are displayed in the table. It would be nice to have that for the 13 standard load indexes in LSF, and be able to pull the description from lsf.shared for ...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Operations/RTM 1 Not under consideration

Status for REPO should not be affected by imported journals

The customer is using period locking on company level for REPO. When submission 1 is closed for the company, a company journal can be entered and this will not affect the status for submission 1. But if the same journal is imported through "Import...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Item Export sheet should show the drop-down list of Display Attribute for Lookup type attribute.

Current Behaviour: When we export the item, the lookup attribute is exported only as a primary key(the drop-down list contains primary key.) Idea/Requirement: In the Item Export for the lookup type attribute user should have choice to export as pr...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Workbooks timing in PAW but corresponding request in the TM1 admin server do not get cancelled

Currently our PAW timeout setting are set to 180 seconds. We are seeing workbooks time out and throw various errors in PAW but when we look at the TM1Admin server activity via TM1Top. We are noticing the corresponding process ( for the timed out P...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Extend support of IBM i Datatypes

To extend the support for DB2 for IBM i data types, including BINARY (BINCHAR), VARBINARY, XML NCHAR, NVARCHAR, VARCHAR FOR BIT DATA.
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Fast way to lock historical rates

For every acquisition I have to lock currency rates within the acquisition register and under Group/Data Entry/Historical Rates. If we acquire a group of entities it could be quite some entries.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

CREATE OPTION IS NOT AVAILABLE WHEN SELECTING MULTIPLE ITEMS

When selecting more than one Data Item, the options Explore -> 'Create' is not available. If only a single item is selected instead, the 'Create' option is available.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Have LSF track the number of status changes and requeues for a job over time

Basically, right now, there is no way to look at LSF's jobInfo record to know how many times a job has been requeued via either a pre-exec/jobstarter failure, or from a manual requeue. Additionally, there is no way to determine how many times a jo...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Threshold for over allocation in License Scheduler

Based on the license availability and the demand from certain project(s), LSF License scheduler can allocate more license to a project, then its define share of licenses. If limits are defined, it leads to under utilization and wastage of licenses...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 3 Not under consideration

Visualization "Validate Bundle" Error on Visualization Customizer for Cognos Analytics (Cognos V11)

IBM Cognos Analytics Visualization Customizer (Cognos Analytics - Cognos V11) Error thrown by the Visualization Customizer for Cognos Analytics when you try to validate a bundle. Note: This only occurs in Cognos V11 Visualizations when opened thro...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Is a defect