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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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Allow creation of table with column definition WITH DEFAULT CURRENT DATE - x DAYS

We have a requirement to create some new tables, where we load a CSV file in every day. The CSV file contains information from the IMS Performance Analyzer Tool, and is always 2 days behind the current date. It would be nice to have the option to ...
12 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Maintenance page instead of Cognos start page only for standard users, not for admins

If we have problems with Cognos, we want to withdraw access from all users except for admins so data / reports can be tested after successful repairs. The Cognos information banner does not help, because it is overlooked. Furthermore, users can by...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 1 Future consideration

Ability to add extra table(s) to a view of tables in data module

Using release 11.1x we like the ability to create a view of tables in a data module like we used query subjects in framework manager. Unfortunately it's not possible to add extra to tables to a existing view after the creation. This means that in ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Features - Inactivity timeout for Planning Analytics as a Service - AWS

A customer using Planning Analytics as a Service on AWS wants to extend the inactivity timeout to 90 minutes. However, there is no option to do this in the Administration/Features section of PAW AWS version 2.0.99, unlike what is available in Plan...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Add Gateway property to allow customer configuration of large file threshold for allowing other gateways to pick up waiting files

Large files currently use a hard coded 50% of fragmentation setting to determine if they are eligible to move from the currently assigned Gateway to another Gateway that may be available for processing. This can have the effect of backing up large...
about 2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review

Cloud Pak for Data needs to support Disaster Recovery scenarios

Cloud Pak for Data needs to support Disaster Recovery scenarios to support Enterprise Customers' requirements for failover/BC/DR
about 2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Sleep processor

A user's job is to stay in an asleep/hung state, which shows RUN on the LSF side. (due to some zombie process) On the LSF side, I would be nice to have, if the process is in a sleep state for 10 minutes and then kill/stop the process/job. Having a...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Not under consideration

TM1 API / Excel VBA - Refresh Sheet => Refresh Selected Sheet without sheet activate

In the TM1 PAX API it is currently only possible to update the current sheet. The sheet must therefore be activated before the refresh. It would be an advantage if you could specify the sheet and it would not have to be ‘activated’ beforehand. Rea...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Manta export to Alation OCF - Power BI

AbbVie is unable to export Power BI resources from Manta to an Alation OCF (Open Connector Framework) existing Power BI source. They are only able to get a successful Power BI to Alation OCF when the Power BI source on Alation side is brand new wi...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Ability to customize color of buttons in message box

Blue color often associated to "validate/ok" and black color to "reject/nok" whereas sometimes it is quicker to choose the black one (e.g. moving a workflow)
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review