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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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Validation Field [$System Fields:Date Last Modified$]

I would like to create a calculation validation that uses Date Last Modified but it's not an available field. The use case is being able to reference this date to auto set a status to "Dormant" based off this date.
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 2 Future consideration

Enable Cognos to be installed as a Docker Container - zCX OpenShift

It will allow the Cognos Application to be installed in a Docker Container OpenShift inside zCX Open Shift (Container inside zOS)
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

Inactive Users identified via the TFUI

It would be useful to have an easy way to identify inactive users via the TFUI. We have an internal policy where accounts are de-activated after 90 days inactivity. These accounts could be Risk Owners, Control Owners etc. Having a mechanism whereb...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Future consideration

Data format in Datamodules

I am looking for a feature to change the dataformat of the columns in Data modules.For example: I have create a calculation and it's default format is Decimal. I want to change the format to percentage.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Better JDBC 4.3 support in the JDBC/JCC driver of Db2 11.5.5

As the knowledgecenter states in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_11.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.wn.doc/doc/c_ds_clients_drivers_11-5-5.html "JCC supports new APIs from JDBC 4.3 specification with this release. ... JDBC 4.3 specification...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 4 Not under consideration

Allow renaming a database when BTS Index is defined

When renaming a database that has a BTS (Basic Text Search) index defined, it fails with error -9874. In the documentation it reads: [...] The RENAME DATABASE statement fails with error -9874, however, if the specified database contains any of the...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Writing back the data quality results to an external database i.e. SQL server

We have a couple of users who have requested for us to connect to their in-country reservoir instances (SQL servers), as they would like to write back their data quality and profiling results in there. This will give them more control of their res...
about 2 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Functionality already exists

db2adutl parallelism

Usually our Db2 backups to TSM are performed using parallelism, sometimes up to parallelism 10. Occasionally we restore a Db2 system in another operating center from where we have no access to the TSM server. In the source environment the Db2 ba...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Undo button in PAx cube viewer

Add undo button to cube viewer, to reverse changes made to the views. This can be one button in conjunction with the data entry undo button that exists in Perspectives, or a separate button if necessary.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Custom Rollups in PAX set editor - For custom reports similar to Perspectives.

It will be useful for the PAX users if custom rollup/sum is available in PAX Set editor and it can be used in custom report as well without any issue. Currently we can use the SUM function in PAX set editor, but the moment exploration report is ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration