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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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Provide an option, either to Add or to Replace field value at the time of Bulk Update

This is an enhancement needed for the Bulk Update feature in the Grid View. Currently when we want to add a value to the existing field, it is getting overwritten ( replaced ) . we need a feature in the "bulk update" where by we can either add or ...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Support of streaming/parsing/converting CLOB/BLOB type data structures in DV for larger data elements such as binary images that reside as objects on an S3

Requirement Integrated Governance In order to be able to use the CP4D Data Virtualization in combination with Watson Knowledge Catalog as a single, integrated governance layer over structured data (residing in Databases / Flat files) and unstructu...
about 3 years ago in Watson Query 0 Future consideration

RUNSTATS with exception consideration

All DB2 customers use RUNSTATS. The RUNSTATS results are used by the DB2 optimizer to determine optimal access plans. In 99.999 percent of all cases this is not a problem. However, there are some objects (tablespaces / indices) for which a RUNSTAT...
over 3 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Cognos Analytics REST API to query datasources used by packages

Automated way of querying the details about the datasources used by packages needs to be established. It is currently achieved using SDK with a limitation that the JAVA memory crash happens when executing SDK against a huge package while querying ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Radial graph - Change back to old settings for text

In the old version of PAW the radial graph shows the detail of the indicator and data. On the new experience, this info is not shown unless we greatly enhance the size of the graph. We wish to go back to the first graph appearance for better user ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Copy/Paste Reports (Deployment)

When deploying a report from one environment to another, using copy/paste to overwrite a report breaks report views and removes the schedule. Prior to Cognos 10.20 this never occurred. We'd like the old functionality back. A workaround currently e...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

For the -12.. Conversion errors, please specify the column name.

It is quite hard to find the column that contains a wrong value in update/inserts statements with many columns in case of such an error message. For other errors the column name is in the sqlca structure. Why is it missing for the conversion error...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

Column and Row scroll synchronization

When there is more than one view on a PAW sheet, and either the rows or columns extend beyond the visible screen area for both views, it would be common for users to want both views to scroll simultaneously. For example, let’s say both views have ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Report and Job run status should be at a User's tenant level

Currently on a Multi tenant setup, users are able to see public Report/Job run status in Cognos administration. Although the only visible details users see are the name of the report/job, time of execution, status and the name of the user who runs...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Option to log unsuccessful connection requests

Our customer, a major bank, has information security guidelines which require logging of unsuccessful system access requests (failed logins). This should be able to be achieved by setting the TM1.Login logger to DEBUG. For clients using the C API ...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration