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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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Global settings for Cognos display and download of reports

We have generated reports in Cognos, numeric values are not right justified and we need to change all the impacted reports ( as we are currently upgrading our Cognos 10 to Cognos 11), unlike if there will be a global settings for this or by defaul...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Not under consideration

Locked FastMap Export

Customer is expecting FastMap export option with feature to lock selective columns. As auditor has to perform tests on daily basis, using fast map is friendly option, however fast map comes with default fields, where user can make any mistakes, or...
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Timestamp(12) support in SQL

Please update all timestamp related SQL functions, in particular TIMESTAMPADD and TIMESTAMPDIFF, to support picoseconds.
about 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Chase Referrals in Cognos AD Configuration

Unable to sucessfully configure Virtual directory server in cognos that uses chase referrrals to route authentication requests to relevant AD's. Error for reference:[ ERROR ] CAM-AAA-0026 The function call to 'ldap_search_s' failed with error code...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

License Scheduler fix INUSE license token detection on same-server Jobs

The License Scheduler is unable to correctly identify the INUSE and RESERVE values of requested tokens (e.g. rusage[MYTOKEN=4], when more than one jobs run on the same server by the same user. Possible solution:This could be solved, if the License...
over 4 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

CONCURRENTACCESSRESOLUTION (USECURRENTLYCOMMITTED) - missing UPDATE support

For a new application we decided to use BIND option "CONCURRENTACCESSRESOLUTION(USECURRENTLYCOMMITTED)". In this case we didn't expected to run into a timeout for a SELECT statement, but received the following error: DSNT408I SQLCODE = -911, ERROR...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Suppress Zeros

I have zero supress on, but when I have calculations included in the report, the output includes all values and doesn't suppress. In this case below – all materials are being shown Is this to do with the calculation or how do I remove/suppress a...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Private View in PAW and cannot see in PAX

Created a private view in PAW this morning and then just now went to try and open via PAX and couldn't see the new private view,
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Is a defect

Do not lock table when entering alter table menu in isql/dbaccess tools

After entering alter table menu and selecting the table , the table will lock in exclusive mode until the opertion finish. If this table is an online trade table , this behaviour is very dangerous.So it should not lock table until user commit the ...
almost 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

MODIFY with DELETEDS and DSN not cataloged printing message as ERROR... and completing with RC4. Should be WARNING instead of ERROR.

Reviewing the output, it is concerning seeing a message with ERROR in the text. DSNU1323I ERROR DELETING IMAGE COPY DATA SET FOR object-type.object-qualifier.object-name DSNUM part-number DSN=dataset-name This is not an ERROR but a fact of lif...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Not under consideration