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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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Period locked indication in Cognos Web

There is a feature to lock a period in Cognos Controller. As a result of the same, when a user tries to amend any data, it does not allow to update/input any value. Same period is unlocked in Cognos Web for same entity. Web user is unable to updat...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Round DOUBLE when number too small instead of returning error SQL0405N

SAS calculations can return DOUBLE values smaller than Sailfish can store in a DOUBLE data type. When a SAS dataset containing one of these values is written to Sailfish, the default datatype is DOUBLE and an error, SQL0405N, is returned. Sailfish...
over 5 years ago in Db2 1 Not under consideration

Clean left over job's daemon processes after job res finished

We have several workflows that the job script can run tools that will spawn processes in the backgroup or as daemons that will stay active once the job script ends. Since the job script ends, res will end with the exit code of the job script, but ...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Other 3 Functionality already exists

Ability to configure Preview API timeout setting inside nginx API endpoint

Customers with large virtual assets that require 120+ seconds to query are unable to preview those assets inside a Catalog. The Catalog preview will fail with a 504 timeout error because the preview API timeout is set to 120 seconds. It is not cur...
over 1 year ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Needs more information

Support Oracle Single Schema for multiple clusters data

In this link https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.2?topic=database-setting-up-external-productionYou have this precondition in the 'Before you begin' section: "For data security, each cluster should have a different database schema to...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Launch Citrix Receiver Session on Full Screen Mode by default

In order to allow our users to be able to access Cognos Controller from home, we are implementing WVD (Windows Vitrual Desktop), but it seems to have a compatibility issue with the IBM Citrix DPI settings, because when the users maximize the Contr...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Search bar in PaFe

A new search bar should be inserted in the PaFe. It is important that the departments can find not only content, but also levels such as month / year, branch or transaction type, etc. Or also hierarchies such as articles.
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enhance report Run History properties settings by individual sections

Our expectation is user should not be changing the properties once they are set to default by Cognos admin. Currently for my contents report properties users can make the setting change to last 5 occurrences/day(s)/months. Due to the GDPR policy w...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Full support of large text fields with Anonymization API

Officially the current implementation of the Anonymization API supports large text fields. However when replacing the content of a large text field the anonymized / new content can only have 4000 chars at maximum. This is suitable for Text Area fi...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Not under consideration

Disable query hints in Cognos Report Studio

While creating reports in Report Studio, some users are over riding the governor settings of the packages by using "Query Hints" option in query property and we would like a way to prevent these over rides. We are primary concerned with "Maximum R...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration