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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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upgrade the Bulk Load stage in order to use TLS 1.2 ( server jobs )

I manage a DWH environment on which about 1000 server jobs are run every day that perform a data load using the MS Sql Server Bulk Load Datastage objects ( Datastage version 11.7 ). Those Datastage objects have been developed to use an embedded co...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Improve filters for numeric attributes

It is not even the functionalities available for a numeric attribute than there is for the alphanumeric attributes. For the numeric ones, it only gives the option to 'Define a range' or 'Select individual items', but for the alphanumeric ones it a...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Missing graphical animation indicator for Suspend icon

When Suspending a report there is no graphical animation indication that states if it is working/processing, etc. There should be some indicator implemented for user friendliness.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Show more than one alias in a report

In a report in PAW or PAX it would be helpful to have the possibility to show two alias simultaneously in a report. For example to show both the an ID and the text in two columns in a report.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Add an option to run a failed query again

After running a set of SQL statements in one single go, the SQL Results view shows a twistie with the success or failure status of each individual statement, and of the statement group as a whole. Quite often -- especially when running DDL -- I ha...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Copy a Dimension from Dimension Editor in PAW

In Architect, you can open the dimension editor for an existing dimension, click 'Dimension', 'Save As' and give the dimension a new name. In effect this copies the dimension and its element structure. In Planning Analytics Workspace, you can't do...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

RCSA Completion Helper - Control Eval is not Associated with more than one Risk Eval

In many cases a single Control mitigates multiple Risks. In such a case, a single Control is associated to multiple Risks. Though, when RCSA Completion Helper runs, the corresponding Control Eval is only associated to the primary Risk's Risk Eval....
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration

Ability to sort FM package field names alphabetically in Report Studio

In Report Studio, we would like to see a sort option added to the display of columns in a Framework Manager package query subject. Many times the columns are ordered a logical fashion, not alphabetically, but when there are many columns it is diff...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Cognos 11 - Changing The Default Pinned Toolbox Items

By default in Cognos Analytics 11, in the "reporting" (report studio) tool there are 6 default pinned toolbox items. So, when you click the "+" sign, you see list, crosstab, chart, etc. I know you can change your pinned items at a user level, but ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CDC should be able to read Oracle logs with asynchronous read-ahead method

Oracle archive log reading needs improving.This customer has to process around 2.4TB / day of Redo Logs.Due to a number of reasons there are occasional replication stops/restarts. This makes the log readers to go back in time, forcing the read of ...
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration