IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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Support DECFLOAT in COBOL

DECFLOAT was introduced in DB2 9 and has just recently been enhanced to be usable in indexes. However the datatype is not supported in COBOL and FORTRAN and only "tolerated" in REXX (as a DOUBLE and then without NAN, SNAN or INFINITY). As a mainfr...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 3 Not under consideration

Monitor DB2 Client

Setup: Currently we have a db2 client installed on the NFS and mounted on all of our app servers. A soft link created from app server home path to the db2profile NFA to access the client from app servers. Pain point: More than 800+ Nodes and 2000+...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Monitoring 0 Not under consideration

facility to hide 'send report by email' option

Please provide facility to hide the 'send report by email' option, so that users will not be able to select this.(this facility was there in Cognos 10). The schedule reports with 'email' option selected goes to waiting state and never get executed.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable the encoding to handle text files in ShiftJIS code.

There're a lot of ShiftJIs text files stored on Windows File System which we're going to crawl, but currently there's no way to change the encoding setting in WD(on CP4D), so all of them are garbled ( by default they are read as UTF-8 text). Pleas...
about 4 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace Backup/Restore Functionality of PAW assets

Improve backup and restore in PAW, more flexible backup and restore: provide functionality to backup and restore personal folders/books for admins backup and restore via Life Cycle Management (move content to another location?)
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Saving the Reportview from Report defaults to location of report instead of My Content

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 FP2, when the report is run in the background from standard reports folders and saving the report view it is defaulting to team content . Would like to see if there is any setting on server side to point save the reports...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Union all View (or common table expression of a UNION ALL) lead to HSJOIN

Case #0000086 Worked with developer and provided following explanation:When there is a join between a UNION ALL view (or a common table expression of a UNION ALL) to another input (let's named it Z), to be able to utilize index access on the table...
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration

Allow functionality to save report selections in explorer GUI

Currently there is no option to save selections( time, dimensions, mesures, filters) made by a user on a given Explorer report.
over 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 1 Not under consideration

Auto sentence/word completion

How better we design the bot, its always difficult to guess how the end user is going to receive it. I might train on different utterances, but user might be talking in different tone. Auto completion/ suggestion based on the trained utterances , ...
over 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Decimal Control when using the Currency-Abbreviate formatting

Currently there is no way to control the number of decimals when we use the currency-abbreviate format for a number in cognos dashboards. It randomly abbreviates sometimes to 1, 2 or no decimal today. When we have executive level dashboards, it w...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

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