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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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SaaS connection errors

Why does Controller SaaS enable sessions to remain open on screen and give the appearance of SaaS connection, when in fact they are deactivated or disconnected sessions? For example, where the user ignores the “idle timer expired” prompt and Contr...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

fix the Cognos license counts for users who don't login

After Capabilities updated, admin licenses are incorrectly showing counts for users who don't login. Analytics Administrator license count should match the number of System Administrators.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Submitted

Enhance OPTIM to default to "DOFILE_EXPANSION NO" on zOS.

Reduce SAVRS output by 90%. State Farm executes several thousand jobs a day when executing the scrubbing of our Enterprise Data Capture. If the underlying SAVRS datasets fill up, that causes problems, and they have to be prematurely migrated. Sinc...
3 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Write Current Compression Dictionary to Log

Write compression dictionary to the Log upon its creation. This would enable true independence of data capture from actual table space availability and/or status. By implication, this might eliminate the need to write the old dictionary to the log...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Mapping Leaf Level Node to a Higher Level Node

We have a use case wherein we intend to link a Leaf Level Node in Manta to a Higher Level Node considering the functionality of process flow among the applications from different technologies. Manta may already have an understanding of IFPC hierar...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Use DB2 Storclas for extents during TS Cloning

I would like an option where the CloningTool uses the StorClas from the DB2 catalog for newly created datasets (e.g. extents).Currently only the following options are supported: no specification means the SMS StrorClass is adopted from the origina...
3 months ago in Db2 Cloning Tool for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Standard simulation tool for the import

Most modern application providing import features do have a simulation option that enable to check what lines / data cannot be integrated because of rules. This enable the users to correct the import without changing the content (e.g. : the lines ...
6 months ago in Product Master 0 Functionality already exists

Text Risk List Entries Having Option for Case Sensitive/Ignore Cases

We have clients who import attributes that are stored as text (Merchant Name) into their risk lists and the file they are importing comes through as all capital letters due to how their internal database stores the data. In order to account for th...
6 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Alter PBG to PBR should be possible for tables with LOBs

The statement ALTER PARTITIONING TO PARTITION BY RANGE should be applicable for tables with LOB's. One of the main drivers for us to convert from PBG's to PBR's is that our LOB tablespaces are growing very large. As the base tables usually only co...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Advanced Search - "Exact Phrase"

Currently, Search Capability in Cognos works great but it returns a lot of stuff when we search for one particular keyword. So could you please add an advanced search option, where it only returns the reports with exact word that was searched.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration