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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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Process to enable TLS 1.3 on DataStage versions

Need process to enable/upgrade TLS 1.3 for DataStage 11.7.1.X versions. This will help to enable new security features and meet the audit. Product :InfoSphere Information Server: Data Integration (DataStage)
3 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Star schema grouping in data modules

Add this functionality that is present in FM and it is important. Every cognos users would benefit a quick construction of schemas that clarify which path the query is following when you have many tables connected.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 4 Not under consideration

Sorting charts by Chart Data Field Label, color heatmap zone based only if have values and chance to hide label values with no elements

Charts do not offer a sorting option. The sorting is made by number of elements in the value of the Chart Data Field. Zone based colored, Heatmaps: The default display configuration does not bring relevant information to the eyes of the user, as a...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

transaction log backup compress and encrypt on SQL Server

currently we are experiencing replication issues such as the one in PMR no TS009339747 with the error the transaction log backup is compressed or encrypted. IBM Infosphere Data Replication does not support compressed or encrypt. currently, why log...
over 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 3 Future consideration

create Planning Analytics queries in reporting and data modules using custom MDX

The custom SQL object is useful in reporting and data modules for creating tables from relational sources using raw query language. The same could be said for the custom MDX object, but this does not support the Planning Analytics data source conn...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Cascading Delete Enhancement

Currently it is not possible to have different scenarios for the cascading delete functionality. Objects can be excluded from the cascading delete entirely or not. There is no way to decide whether to delete an object depending on different use ca...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Relative time reports different than dashboard

If you create a report with Relative time QTD Grouped and YTD Grouped on it, they will show as individual columns on a crosstab. If you try and add both to dashboard, they just nest and don't show the correct results. You can put one or the other ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

IBM Z Common Data Provider template for the User Define SMF Record Type 249 cut by DVM

The customer is using IBM Z Common Data Provider (zCDP) to stream SMF records in real-time to their Splunk. zCDP provides policies for all the non user define SMF records, the SMF249 is a user define record, hence zCDP can't reference o it, so it ...
over 3 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 3 Planned for future release

auto size search and select prompt in cognos report studio

By default the search and select prompt has fixed width when used on the prompt page, there is a system setting where it expands to width of contents automatically. Unfortunately that setting never worked at all, check note belowhttp://www-01.ibm....
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Provide an option, either to Add or to Replace field value at the time of Bulk Update

This is an enhancement needed for the Bulk Update feature in the Grid View. Currently when we want to add a value to the existing field, it is getting overwritten ( replaced ) . we need a feature in the "bulk update" where by we can either add or ...
10 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review