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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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Support for adding/adjusting dates by workdays

Our Deloitte Sense solution based on the ORM, have functionality to schedule performance of a control. The schedule will use offset days to add og substract days to the end of a control monitoring period. For example, for controls covering the mon...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 4 Future consideration

Allow relative path for dashboard images

Adding an image to a dashboard, the URL property does not allow relative path which makes deploying to different environments challenging.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Future consideration

Ability to Document Report within Report Studio

The ability to add text documentation to a report at different object levels and the ability to display it to the developer.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

I would like to force the use of the "DEFER" option on the creation of an index (using Zparm to make it optional).

We have DBAs that at times (accidently) run a "CREATE INDEX" and fail to include the "DEFER" option. This is rather easy to do because the reverse engineering tools fail to create syntax with the "DEFER" option. The creation of indexes can be very...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Store Data Connection in Job

We deliver several (20+) data sets to our clients in a multi-tenant environment. These datasets are deployed with demo data. They must copy these to a secured tenant folder in order to update them with their own data. We provide a pre-defined job ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Empty Remote DN in MX MSGs with manual entry in MER

We would like a warning MSG to be issued if Remote DN is not Entered in MX MSGs (DNIFINPLUS and DNIMX domains) because the MSG sent to InterAct will get the error in MSG Send Notification.
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 1 Future consideration

Automatic generation of field MsgId: Message Identification in MX MSGs when entered manually in MER

Field Field MsgId: Message Identification is mandatory and unique so it should be generated automatically during manual entry of MX MSGs in MER
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 2 Future consideration

Watchdog/Timeout option for jobs, so jobs that run longer than x minutes are stopped

There are situations where WML and /or spark jobs are hanging/ running to long. My CP4D job developer have a good understanding of how long a job should run. In case of longer running jobs I as a CP4D administrator want that these jobs are aborted...
over 2 years ago in Openscale 0 Not under consideration

Support for Bit type from MS SQL Server

We use a Bit field as a boolean to indicate if a record is the current record for our customer. Currently, it is not supported and requires casting to another type.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

IFCID 365 - Set variable QLSTNTLS to -1 for unknown.

TLS/SSL Used Number of connections from the remote site that were configured with SSL and AT/TLS support. This value is meaningful only at the server. (Field name: QLSTNTLS). We are reporting on this field and are seeing some values of 0 for conne...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration