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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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Optim Separate File LOB Extract

Optim Connect does not offer a way to extract CLOBS or BLOB data types to separate files. If you have a file imbedded in a BLOB field a 3rd party tool is required to extract the data. Optim Connect does not have support for CLOBs and maps it t...
about 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Application Retirement 0 Not under consideration

LifeCycle Manager Default User

In the 10.2.2 version of Lifecycle Manager, you could assign a default user and password, but then didn't have to input it ever again. I am getting prompted 3 different times to get to a project just so I can look at it or edit it. That is extreme...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Set a limit for service class

It would be useful to set a limit in lsb.resources for Serive Class "SLA" in order give some minimum guarantee with SLA and set a maximium number of resorucese usable in this SLA.It would be excellent to indicate the limit with the number of nodes...
about 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Scheduling 1 Not under consideration

Altering the default value of a global variable

Global Variables: A global variable can be created with a default value. Each session that uses it will then instantiate a version of that global variable, with the default value and any change in the value is limited in scope to its unit-of-work....
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Not under consideration

Encryption of File Attachments

Files attached to objects in OpenPages may contain sensitive information and requires OpenPages to support encryption / decryption of these files. This request was intended in the existing idea OPP-I-278 (Support for Encryption of Files / Encrypte...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Infrastructure/Conformance 2 Future consideration

Skip Consolidated Values

When saving cube views for processes, users have the option of selecting 'Skip Consolidated Values' in the cube 'view extract' interface. When saving a cube view from PAW, this option is not available. Further, when changing a current view and sav...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disabled Active Directory account should have their saved credentials removed from Cognos content store

When an account has been disabled in Active Directory the saved credentials still exist in Cognos, meaning scheduled jobs are still running. This poses a security risk as the report is still distributed even though that account has been disabled i...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Filter Behavior in Interactive Mode

When filter is added to the layout in interactive mode, and filtered data set is returned, there is no visual indication that the additional filter was applied. Target application: Report Studio
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Resize Selectors / Cube View

In PA Workspace, there seems to be no method to resize the text size on cube views or element selectors.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

replication tool should be able to track the changes happening on the source during the refresh period and then replicate them on to target accurately or handle the conflicts gracefully rather than terminating the whole replication process.

At Goldman, Infosphere CDC is setup in such a way that it starts every day at 2:30 pm ET, refreshes the target table(s)and keeps them in sync from that point. We started seeing issues recently where Infosphere terminates completely saying that the...
about 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration