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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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Support more than 500 columns per table in a Data Module

We have tables that have more than 500 columns. When we try to use them in a Data Module we get this error: The expression is not valid. MSR-GEN-0103 The entered SQL statement returned 3209 columns. Change your SQL statement to return up to a maxi...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

CREATE TABLE LIKE "table-controlled partitioning" should create the table with same partitioning scheme and rules

When a table that uses table-controlled partitioning is identified in the LIKE clause, the new table should automatic inherit the partitioning scheme of that table and create an uts PBR.
10 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Need an option to create Postgresql connection without the database name.

Currently, CPD doesn't support Postgresql connection without the database name. Need an option to create Postgresql connection without the database name.
10 months ago in Connectivity 0

The possiblity to get more memory on Cloud

The possibility to purchase additional memory/resources to the Cloud environement. Currently only 16GB is available. 32GB is requested.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Issue with Cognos Axes

Issue with Axes in Cognos reports, please go thru enclosed document, it has the details
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include milliseconds in any TIMESTAMP column. The datatype supports it, IBM, please value it.

There are many TIMESTAMP columns within the OperationalConsole application that do not have milliseconds valued and this makes is very difficult to get accurate timings. Here are a couple of examples, in the DSODB.JobRun table, CREATIONTIMESTAMP h...
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Ability to configure auto retry on scheduler processes

WK import is scheduled to run daily. However, we see a failure in this process on average 1-4 times per month. Each time it fails, we receive an email notifying us of the failure and we have to go in and manually rerun the process. 95% of the time...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Element to Element Compare using substrings

Allow references to specific byte ranges within an attribute for comparison. For example, consider building a counter with the intent of identifying a BIN attack/Credit Master attack/enumeration attack. Generally speaking, these attacks will origi...
about 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

[TFUI] Configure default sorting in Grid Views

Currently in a Grid View, the object instances are sorted by default by the Name field in an ascending order. In an embedded Grid, the default sorting can be configured to meet ones needs. This is not possible in a Grid View. Users have to apply t...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 4 Not under consideration

Log something meaningful from the python symphony calls when something is missing

When an unexperienced symphony python developer trying to connect symphony via his python script (without knowing that he did not call function conn.create_session(sca) before making the connection call... the python script core dumped without giv...
10 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration