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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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Support for multiple TM1 login URI's

I know that you can enter several TM1 Admin Server URI's in PAW configuration by separating them by ; it would be great to be able to do same with TM1 Login Server URI's, to my knowledge this is not possible today.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Keep layout when sending Trial Balance to Excel

In a Trial Balance in Controller there are lines (between rows) to display which accounts are summation accounts. When sending the report to Excel the layout disappear. Consequently, the report in Excel are almost impossible to read. My customers ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Informix incremental backups (L1)

Hi, L0 and L1 backups of informix are taking almost same time since it seems that is limited by disk reading performance: we are using IBM spectrum backup to backup. From IFX logs we see that they are using /usr/informix/server12/bin/onbar_d...
almost 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

FAP Service.properties - Password Encryption

Hi, at our client Atlantic Group d.d. during upgrade of PA,CA,CC client set request to eliminate all hardcoded passwords on any file on all models. We successfully eliminated them by using inbuilt encryption (e.g. in PA) or if password was in .bat...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

PRS-NOP-1056 error using tree prompt with multiple datasource connections

Client has datasource with multiple connections. When report is run user must choose one. When there is a tree prompt the datasource prompt is bypassed and the tree is displayed. Expanding the tree causes a PRS-NOP-1056 error. Bug is same as COGCQ...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to change and update so reports no longer run in 'IE 5 Quirks mode'.

Client Esri: Ability to change and update so reports no longer run in 'IE 5 Quirks mode'. When running a report Cognos forces the browser to use 'IE 5 Quirks mode' (called 'Quirks mode' in IE 8 and 9 and 'IE 5 Quirks mode' in IE 10 and 11). This c...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Functionality already exists

ENABLE ONCHECK DATA CROSS-CHECKING FOR FUNCTIONAL INDEX

oncheck -cI on a functional index still says:"Non vanilla index. data crosschecking not enabled" After so many years supporting functional indices we should consider enabling this. I had a customer with a corruption in a functional index on a huge...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Delete profiles using a batch job instead of doing it thru the panels

ADP has approx 40 environments. So to cleanup profiles that aren't being used is a very labor instensive .
about 4 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Query / Set DS Project NLS setting using command line

Need command line option to query & set NLS setting for a datastage project. currently it is handled thru GUI which is very time consuming for large volume of projects and looking for options to validate / automate programmatically.
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

LZ4 DB2 Compression Option - DB2 Connector Stage

As we've been migrating from Netezza to DB2 (with the support of IBM) - It's been noticed (by IBM) that the LZ4 Compression Option is not available in the DB2 Connector. Tests performed via the DB2 Command Line (on the Datastage server) show signi...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists