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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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HTML Item for Dashboard

We are an Australian based software company (Pronto Software) which bundles with Cognos Analytics. We are rolling out new Dashboards based on Cognos Analytics and retiring older versions built using Cognos 10. We have a pain point however - we are...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Submitted

Improve the performance of Teradata Connector when doing BULK read

Teradata bulk export of ~7 million rows from Datastage using TD connector takes over ~30 minutes as compared on using TPT export (that is also executed on the DS engine) which only took around ~3-4 minutes. The timing differences are significant, ...
8 months ago in DataStage 1 Under review

Add ability to control optimizer version.

Similar to DB2 z/OS Functional Levels and SQL Server Database Compatablity Level add ability to do the same for new optimizer versions. At least compared to the previous version. This allows more confidence for upgrades. This would allow upgrading...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Store the metadata in a Data Module

When importing from one environment to another one, the loaded metadata which the data modules reference to is not found. It gives you a warning when importing the deployment with the names of the Data source and Schema you need to load the metada...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Adding xlsx files into Modeler stream by drag-and-drop

You can add excel data source into Modeler stream by drag-and-drop xls file onto Modeler canvas. But you can't add xlsx file in that way. Old xls files are not supported now and IBM recommends to use new xlsx files. So SPSS Modeler should have dra...
over 8 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Not under consideration

Change job submit time to include milliseconds for precision.

Job submit time to include milliseconds for precision. Instead of HH:MM:SS, make it like 12:29:05.1234. This will enable this column to be used as a unique identifier when generating data in an incremental fashion. We are extracting the RTM data a...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Reporting/Explorer 4 Not under consideration

Add the ability to control db2sqljcustomize behavior on untyped host variables and prevent silent data type conversion

We modernize a banking database application originally written in COBOL by migrating the functionality into a new written Java application. During this application migration we noticed that there is an issue with unexpected/unwanted data type con...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

Cognos Groups

I hope in the future there is a out the box report that can show users in all groups. This will help with Audits.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Provide summarisation capabilities

On knowledge management use case customers are asking for a solution that whilst retrieving pointers to relevant documents can provide a summary of the docs themselves. Customer in Banking and Insurance industries are the most interested, and in g...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Enhance SYSIBM.SQLFUNCTIONS to deliver meta data required by JCC (JDBC V4)

This is a quite old story. Back in 2015 this had already been addresses by COGNOS team IBM internally, but due to the possible impact to existing applications, it was refused to open an APAR for this issue. But RFE or DCR has not been opened by CO...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Not under consideration