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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 "Test Derivation" option for Transformer derivations

When coding Transformer derivations it would be very nice to have (similar to "Validate Derivation") a "Test Derivation" Option that would work like a "View Data" in e.g. a Connector Stage. When using this option, DataStage would ask for the value...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Create a numerical drop down field.

Can we create the ability to have a enumerated field where the options are considered a number? This causes us issues where we use the chart functionality on the dashboard or try to sort on Cognos as the numbers are stored as text. We would like t...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Hide Parent for DrillDown

We are using a Tree-Map and when DrillingDown one member the parent also stays visible. For Visualizations this can be misleading or confusing for the viewer and so far you have to click manually on the parent element to hide it again. This exampl...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

DB2 Multi-Row Fetch/Insert - COBOL Programming Modell

Customer addressed to IBM that the use of DB2 Multi-Row Fetch/Insert is not well accepted by the developers since it increases the programming complexity a lot and is not ease to use in COBOL. Initial discussions pointed to the already addressed "...
almost 13 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Allowing user to set how many number of lines should be scan to determined field data type when importing *.xlsx file

With the current design, for .xlsx format excel files only first 200 rows are scanned to determine the field type, if no data presented in the first 200 rows, then that column is deemed as a numerical field by default. So, when importing data with...
over 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Report Studio Support Package in CA 11

Report Studio using a specified package in url.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

QMF for WEBSPHERE - BIDI SUPPORT REQUIRED as in QMF for WORKSTATION

We have many tables that has columns in Hebrew (in addition to the English columns) In order to see them correctly, a BIDI support is required ( bidirectional text layout transformations). This is already implemented in QMF WORKSTATION but not in ...
over 1 year ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

CDC support for replication from SQL Server 2017 on Linux

We use IBM Data Replication (CDC) to replicate data from SQL Server. We would like to move SQL Server to Linux but CDC only supports SQL Server on Windows. CDC should support replicating data from SQL Server 2017 on Linux.
about 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Not under consideration

ALL: Improve password encryption

Improve the password encryption between the agents and Access Server.
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Functionality already exists

Edit counter dimension in Cognos web

We use dimensions in PL and BAL reporting and therefore also counter dimension in intercompany transactions. It is possible to enter and update this variable in the thick client, but not in the web client. As this is crucial in our intercompany re...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release