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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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improve error message with ADV node credentials

See defect ECM00211977 - resolved as Functioning as Designed. When you open a stream containing an ADV node without logging in first into the repository, you get an error message - because you haven't logged in. For DB source nodes, if you haven't...
almost 10 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

force the execution of a query on an accelerator if more than one is available.

The CURRENT ACCELERATOR special register specifies a preferred target accelerator or accelerators to which Db2 sends dynamic SQL queries. But If you have multiple accelerators on which the same set of Db2 tables are accelerated, by default the wor...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Documentation with return type for scalar functions

The documentation of the knowledgeCenter should explicitly describe the type the returned value. I mean, if it is an integer, a char, a timestamp, etc.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Unlock All Periods

In the Maintian -Period Locking – Change Multi Period Locking there is an option to "Unlock All Periods". How can we dsable this functionality for all users except ADM? This will minimise the risk of periods being left open for data entry.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add a warning message if a file is cancelled after it has been ICRE'ed

If a file is ICRE'ed and processed thru the system and items have been thru DISTRIBUTION and the PRESENTMENT has been sent to the posting system CANCELLING a PRESENTMENT can cause several issues. If a warning message that shows that the file has a...
almost 5 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Not under consideration

Make PDF documentation available that describes the Cognos extended SQL functions

It is common practice by Cognos report authors and administrators to use the "Generate SQL" feature to view the SQL that executed during a report run. This may be done either for performance improvement or troubleshooting reasons. When the SQL con...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Automated log removal within Cognos install directory

Client would like a way to remove older logs automatically from the Cognos install. Ideally they would like to be able to set the maximum size and number of logs like as can be done with the cogserver.log with all other logs such as pogo localhost...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Prompt page issue when a user makes a selection on a value prompt

Making a selection in a value prompt on the prompt page causes the page to refresh and the control goes to the top of the page. When using a screen reader the tab key must be used to navigate back to the value prompt.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

An option in Chart Properties in Report Studio that allows charts to autosize

Customer would like to have the percentage option available when resizing charts. In the Size & Overflow option that changes the size of the report the customer would like a percentage option that would make resizing easier and more universal ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to change default image path to relative path

Customer would like to have the ability to change the default image path to a relative path
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration