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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Create package from TM1 datasource having multiple connection without using FM

We would like to have the option to create a package directly in cognos administration for tm1/cognos planning data source type (without using Framework Manager) when there is several data connections defined for the data source. Today when we are...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to copy and paste full result set from an output table

SPSS Modeler V14.1 had the functionality of cutting and pasting a large amount of resultant rows from a stream output table. This functionality has been lost with the newer versions of SPSS Modeler. Currently, SPSS Modeler v17 prompts with an inac...
almost 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 2 Not under consideration

Add schedule to More/shortcut menu

Currently (as of Rel 10), in order to create a schedule for a report, you must go to More (...), click on the properties, click on schedule, then click on (+) New. Let's add a shortcut to the more (...) menu that will take the user to the properti...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos analytic - Hide LDAP login page

We configured Cognos Analytic 11.0.5 to work with IIS (SSO) to login to the application. Everything is working fine and user can access the SSO link: http://[server]/ibmcognos. We require that users use the SSO link to connect. The problem is that...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow system administrators to specify bufferpool sizes in "M" or "G", rather than pages.

With big memory and bufferpools measured in gigabytes, sizing pools by number of pages becomes tedious and error-prone. A 1GB pool requires one to specify -ALT BPOOL(BPx) VPSIZE(262144). A 5GB pool would be VPSIZE(1310720). Most users use "round" ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhancement of compression algorithm used by DB2

We have noticed that the compression ratio (PAGESAVE) for first partition of a Partitioned TS is 0% after running an IBM Reorg Utility. The reason why PAGESAVE/compression ratio for that first Partition is 0% is caused because many initial rows in...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DataStage supporting writing data to GCP GCS with CMEK

DataStage (11.7.1) Google Cloud Storage (GCS) connector failed to write data into GCS, not supporting Customer Managed Encryption Key (CMEK). We in HSBC use CMEK in all components in GCP. If this is enabled, we can use GCS with DataStage directly....
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

Runstats: additional opti...

Runstats will fail during execution if an object is unavailable or still does not exist (although 'define yes'). Please provide an option to skip those objects and continue with next object.During LISTDEF there is the option e.g. ITEMERROR SKIP to...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Parameterized url with Azure OIDC has limitation of 4096 Bytes

Unlike IBM Directory Service (Or some Local Authentication Providers) Azure AZ supports only 4096 Bytes in the request url in its authorization end Point. This is causing issue with existing report with large columns passed to Cognos as query stri...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

CSV or Excel Report Output or Report from a Schedule as Report or Dashboard Data Source

Currently there is no option of a Medium Size Datasource to develop a Report or Dashboard. Spreadsheets can be used but refreshing it in a daily frequency is a problem and not automated. Instead, a report as a datasource or a report output as a Da...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration