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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Include milliseconds in any TIMESTAMP column. The datatype supports it, IBM, please value it.

There are many TIMESTAMP columns within the OperationalConsole application that do not have milliseconds valued and this makes is very difficult to get accurate timings. Here are a couple of examples, in the DSODB.JobRun table, CREATIONTIMESTAMP h...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Method to increase idle timeout for Controller Web (currently fixed at 60 minutes)

If a user is logged into Controller Web, but pauses using it (leaving it on screen but idle) they will get a problem if they don't click on anything (in Controller Web) for more than 60 minutes. If using Native authentication, it will just return ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Add Regular Expressions for Project Limits and SLA Auto-Attach and Permissions

We utilize hierarchical projects and at times we would like to allow certain projects and certain functions, both that are a part of the hierarchy to utilize an SLA, for example, assume that the project has three levels project_code:finance_code:f...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Element to Element Compare using substrings

Allow references to specific byte ranges within an attribute for comparison. For example, consider building a counter with the intent of identifying a BIN attack/Credit Master attack/enumeration attack. Generally speaking, these attacks will origi...
almost 3 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

Upgrade log4j jar file in DVM JDBC driver

The Scenario : Using the latest DVM JDBC Driver, users issue an import command on Apache Sqoop to do a parquet file conversion. The Problem: The error “java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'org.apache.logging.log4j.Level org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionCon...
9 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Tabbed report does not support page breaks by section

When I create a sectioned report and set page breaks by section on a tabbed report the run report fails. The indication is that a tabbed report does not support page breaks by group. Since portals were taken away we are using tabbed reports to sup...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Clicking on Save button in reports throws error for users without save permission on report folder

Cognos throws error when user clicks on save button after interacting with report. User doesn't have access to save report in the same folder. Cognos should throw a warning message rather than error.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom URLs for Cognos Analytics cannot be created for Excel files published by Cognos for Microsoft Office

Cognos for Microsoft Office can be used to publish Excel files to Cognos Analytics. The published files are not reports and the custom URLs currently cannot handle access to the published files. The files also do not have share/embed functionality
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Custom graphs in cyclops/webconsole

As NzPortal no longer supports the new platforms we are forces to switch to the cyclops web console which does not support adding custom graphs which we could do in NzPortal. Adding this functionality shouldn't be a lot of work and would provide f...
about 2 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Future consideration

Filter hierachy in dashboard global filter

To be able to filter similar like powerplay where you hover the mouse over a member and see its children. Then be able select and filter the dashboard/report like this.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration