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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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Master-detail optimization in reports based on data modules

Currently, Master-detail optimization is the feature that has to be explicitly enabled by turning on a specific FM DQM governor and publishing the FM package. Without that feature turned on, most reports and burst reports containing master-detail ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

On Demand offering should have timezone the same as the datacentre where it was ordered.

When we run reports in New Zealand using data calculations, all our reported values change at 3PM! Very embarrassing to try and explain why our actuals change and a bad look for Cognos Analytics which is supposed to be providing consistent details...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Cognos Cloud 0 Not under consideration

Multiple queues request for job - consider taking in account queue limitations and lsf.resources for better job dispatching.

Today, when we submit a job with multiple queues (bsub "high risk") The job will be dispatched to a relevant queue by examine parameters such as queue status(open/closed), queue hosts, time-limit. In a situation, where a queue "high" have a ujob_l...
10 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Data Modules - Capabilities to restrict access to specific types of sources

There are 5 types of sources for data modules: packages data modules data sets uploaded files data server connections Not every user should see or have access to all of these types of sources. For example we don't want our users to upload files an...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

[TFUI] Configure default sorting in Grid Views

Currently in a Grid View, the object instances are sorted by default by the Name field in an ascending order. In an embedded Grid, the default sorting can be configured to meet ones needs. This is not possible in a Grid View. Users have to apply t...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 4 Not under consideration

audit logs should distinguish user cancel from report failure

Our executives get monthly updates on report failure rates from our Cognos BI hosted solution. We find that a significant portion of the reports that are recorded in audit tables (cogipf_runreport) are actually user cancels. In order to develop ac...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Change ANLPCOLL JCL generation from using DSNTEP2 to ADBTEP2 to facilitate easy restart if job abends

No description provided
almost 4 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 2 Planned for future release

Support for CLOB data typs

Support for CLOB data type, for the substring and position functions. Currently you can only use the functions to string fields, and converting a CLOB to a string will not work if the CLOB is over 4000 characters. The Vendor specific functions, su...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

UUID support

Provide support for UUIDs. Eg - function to create , format and default value for column.
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Pick Up a New Version of Job Step Automatically

The ability to configure a Job Step to automatically pick up a new version of the underlying asset.I would like to have a setting or property available for a Job Step, where I can indicate whether I want the Job Step to automatically retrieve a ne...
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration