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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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CMTools for Linux

Please provide tool like CMTools.exe for Linux.We are really interested in it's CMTop tab.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

New access path for faster first fetch with a good global time

Firstly, I don't know if it is possible. We can encounter this following performance issue : select on a big table with an order by. Depending on the statistics, we can have list prefetchs on an index. If the index is very big, we have to wait a l...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Not under consideration

After START DB2 LIGHT(YES), provide new status messages while waiting for indoubt thread resolution

When DB2 is restartet using the LIGHT(YES) or LIGHT(CASTOUT) clause and indoubt URs exist, DB2 issues message DSNR052I at the end of restart. After this message, there is no acitvity driven by DB2 itself, that allows a monitoring or identifying wh...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Consolidation without AFCs removing AFCs

A customer is reporting that when a user with access to only part of the customer's company structure runs a consolidation without AFCs for the section of the company structure that they have access to, their consolidation removes the AFCs for com...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio: Excel Data Export should consider Framework Manager settings (e.g. currency)

The Excel data export functionality not only ignores the settings in the report (ok) but also from the model (not ok). Even if a currency is defined for a measure in the model, the export will use the currency symbol corresponding to the logon lan...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need documentation for Statistics Server failure codes when jobstep submitted from C&DS

Sometimes an SPSS Statistics jobstep submitted from C&DS fails. In the output log for C&DS all that the end user knows is that the job failed and they see error codes like "-1", "-2", "-3", etc. However there is no documentation on what th...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

397 VLDB - Improve Logging Offload along with insert performance

Now that flashcopy/backupsystem has been validated for user/catalog objects would it be possible to provide similar solutions for the db2 Log offloads
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Organizing datasource connections in Cognos Administration

Hi, We would like to get a better overview in Cognos Administration when viewing all our 2000 datasource connections. The ability to filter on datasource connection type (PowerCube, MS SQL Server, ODBC, IBM Cognos TM1 etc.) in order to minimize th...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

better diagnostic for locale errors

We experience -21005 errors typically during loading data to the database. The error (undocumented) means that at least one character is not supported by database locale. Unfortunately it is not sufficient to correct input data fast: there is no f...
over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Specify Schedule Owner

Allow the schedule credentials to be defined rather than the last user to edit the schedule.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration