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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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Add a time function within Cognos Analytics that always returns Cognos system time

Currently, the following functions return date/time based on whether the database provides support. current_date returns cognos system date if not within a query, but when used within a query, it returns the database server date. The same happens ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Data is retained when switching to a different PowerPlay package Using PAX

The requirement is such that, when a user switches from one package to another and the package comprises of the same physical PowerCube, the connection is made to the new package. Currently, the behaviour is that switching to a different pa...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Increase Number of AD User Groups that OKTA can pass to Cognos Analytics

The issue is with the actual number of AD user groups that OKTA can pass through to Cognos. We have 321 AD user groups at Mattel and the current OKTA limit is 100. This issue is delaying our migration to the IBM Cognos Cloud. We need the following...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ODM iLog Rule Decision Engine to include a wrapper for class structure to xml structure

Today we see performance issues with using the iLog rule stage with core engine mode, dynamic XOM and Hierarchal stage creating the xml payload inputs and outputs from the ilog rules stage. Currently this conversion is extremely slow. Instead, we ...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Online Schema Change Support for AOT

There is Online Schema Change Support for both repliacted and non-replicated Accelerator Shadow Tables but AOTs. If customer would like to change the schema of an AoT, it should be removed/added/loaded again. It causes business outage and a lot of...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Consistent Spreading behavior among different Viewers and Client

IBM Planning Analytics For Excel Users are not able to input value in rule-driven consolidated cell in Exploration. However it works from Viewer. Rules defined: [revenue]=N:[volume]*[price]; [price]=C:[revenue]\[volume]; This behavior creates conf...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Install InfoSphere Data Replication Agent on Azure SQL Database

User is migrating his database to Azure and they need to replicate data between MS-SQL Server (source) and Azure SQL Database (target).
over 6 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Not under consideration

Make XML tablespaces more portable

Currently, there are 3 different internal structures that Db2 uses for the implicitly created table inside an XML tablespace: 3 columns, 5 columns with the START_TS/END_TS fields as BINARY(8), and 5 columns with the START_TS/END_TS fields as BINAR...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

LDAP Alternative

Use of MS Graph connections using an Azure service principal as an alternative to LDAP.
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 4 Not under consideration

Optimization access paths currently used for SELECTs should also apply to UPDATEs (and DELETEs)

Currently, as I write a SELECT query with a correlated Sub-select (and no other predicates), I see that the optimization for that query uses a non-correlated sub-select and the query runs very fast. But, if I use exactly the same predicate, but wr...
over 4 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration