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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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Better and intuitive error messages

Better error message in Parallel jobs Error messages often doesn't give any values for developer e.g TR_lag_record,0: Fatal Error: ~APT_PMPlayer: terminating Player (node1, parallel APT_TransformOperatorImplV0S69_CopyOfJOB_G57_LINDORFF_LAAN_DAG_TR...
over 8 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Implement XQuery functions present in DB2 LUW but missing in DB2 for z/OS

Quite a lot of XQuery functions that are implemented in DB2 LUW, are missing in DB2 for z/OS. Many of them are very useful, and should be implemented in DB2 for z/OS as well. Here is the complete list (39 functions). We are specifically missing th...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Changes to Lua CM Procs o...

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over 8 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Ability to add Export/Imp...

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over 8 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Report book creation and maintenance

When a report book is created a selection of report should be done and saved on the page "define".In the second tab "Selections", we can set up the different reports.In the third tab "output", you define outputs settings. When we have to reorganiz...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Security Groups on Actualities

In Controller it is not currently possible to limit access to certain actualities for certain users. We have users who are responsible for the forecast/budget who should only have read access to the actual data, and vice versa.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Externalize performance t...

I have a performance trace running requesting IFCIDS 58 (END), 59 (FETCH), 65(OPEN), 66(CLOSE). I run the following Cobol program: ID DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. C011MAIN. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 77 FILLER PIC X(12)...
over 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

CAF rejection error if we pass the query parameter "ref" to the login URL

When we try to implement authentication using pingfederate , pingfederate will send the form/query parameter call "ref". but since the "Ref" is a reserved word in cognos it rejected by CAF. We need some seeting or enhancement to accept this parame...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

SPSS statistics - Problem with mixed Output to word-document

Until version SPSS 15 the output from SPSS to WORD was with format for pictures with "Enhanced Metafile (*.EMF)". The result in WORD was excellent as good as in SPSS. Since version SPSS 16 and later the format ist "PNG". With this format the quali...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

LSF to support CRAY ALPS SWITCH IN/OUT reservation

Preemption behavior in LSF/ALPS is a bit different because of ALPS reservation - only one ALPS reservation can be made over a compute node at a time.In order for any application to run, a session id needs to be associated with the application and ...
over 8 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration