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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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Show CPU usage of the SQL in Real time in IDAA #cpfield

IDAA Customers would like to see the CPU usage in real time on SQL Detail level. QM only shows Db2 metrics in realtime, so no IDAA specific ones, like CPU on IDAA
over 3 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Change status does not allow lock/unlock of a submission for multiple periods

Change status does not allow lock/unlock of multiple submissions. The only option is to lock the full actuality and period.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

APIs for extracting some info from XMETA

We are currently using ETL jobs to read ETL execution logs(from DSODB) and ETL job modification details(from XMETA). This details are very important for auditing. In the CDP version, can you please include some APIs to get this information extracted.
over 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

[RFE][BBVA] - Extract data from plc to Kafka

Since we are having problems while PLC is not being able to write all the tasks executed in Symphony to Oracle database, we would like to have a plc connector to send all the information to a Kafka queue (or similar). Our goal is to be able to use...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Product functionality 2 Not under consideration

Built in cube reporting engine so there is no need for TM1

Controller users are required to use external products for cube reporting
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Connection: enable double-click on elipses from Search results to open or go to the objects parent location

when searching for objects, the results list has '/../' that when hovered over, displays the path for the object.Add ability to double click on the '/../' that opens or takes me to the objects parent location.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to control Cognos for MS Office access via admin security

Ability to control if a user can use Cognos for Office plugin can be used.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Oracle connectors should support more flexible connect strings

The Oracle connector only allows configuring SID (or service)/port/hostname, whereas Oracle connect strings can normally be considerably more complex. This does not allow for connection manager configurations or even a simple failover pair of host...
over 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

RTM: add grid cache directory purge feature

currently, the directory use for job graphs (specified in the "Console->Grid Settings->Paths->Grid Cache Dir" field) is never clean up. can you please add feature to purge this directory to avoid disk space saturation ?
almost 10 years ago in Spectrum LSF 3 Not under consideration

Ability to customize default selection color in Active reports

Color customization for the container select and mouse hovering needs to be incorporated into report studio.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration