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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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HASH function

Currently the HASH function is implemented as a "User Defined Function" within DataStage. This functionality was developed as-is so it's not working when trying to optimize the job with BalOpt. DataStage development team took the Hash code provid...
almost 6 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Report output saved to multiple filesystems.

We would like to have the ability to save report outputs to multiple shared filesystems, where report output is save under folders who's name relates to the actual reports names. CASE number for reference:TS000067038
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add support for Secure Network Communication (SNC) for SAP BW namespace and datasource connection

When SAP BW enables SNC (secure network communication) enforcement on their end, Cognos is not able to establish a connection with the existing connection details. Any connection attempts from Cognos error out indicating that SAP BW is expecting t...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Preventing accidental singleton creation in Report

What has always been a struggle for new users in Report Studio is the ability to accidentally create singletons when dragging data items onto the report page. As we are training our Query Studio users in the Cognos Analytics Report we are seeing t...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide Transformer in Cloud for Clients building against DashDB

Currently customers that are building Transformer PowerCubes on premise against DashDB in the cloud are forced to leverage IQDs (32-bit) due to the excessive round-trips of the data when using DQM data sources (64-bit). This is necessitating a slo...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

REORG Option to set Return Code for drain failure or deadline

At present we have to manually intervene every time a REORG fails with a DRAIN FAIL or DEADLINE hit, because the job finishes with RC8. However, these scenarios are both common and expected BAU situations - so we would like to handle them automati...
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Questionnaire Template Disclaimer and Logo customization

In 8.3 version of OpenPages, the Questionnaire Template Disclaimer text and logo are customizable and can be configured. But the fact that logo & disclaimer are shared across all templates in the system, defeats the entire purpose of the custo...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Is there a way for fastmap updates to interact with workflows

Whilst an auto-start workflow would be capable of starting workflow instances, would it be possible for a fastmap to update the workflow stage e.g. bulk approval or bulk collection of KRIs. I don't think the current 8.0.0.3 offers this capability,...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 5 Not under consideration

HADR: Ability to take incremental backups on either host and maintain the incremental chain for restore

In an HADR environment it is not possible to restore / recover the database with backups which are taken from both sites of the HADR cluster (after takeovers). You have to use the backups from the one site or from the other site. You can't mix the...
over 3 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

Glossary on Dashboards

When you are running or developing a report within Cognos 11 - you have the ability to click on a data item and choose glossary and lineage. This capability only exists for Reports - it does not exist for Dashboards or Stories. It would be nice to...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration