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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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Enhance SQLCODE SQL3015N details

When we receive the following error message (during LOAD): SQL3015N An SQL error "-551" occurred during processing. we only know, that it is an authorization issue. The detail information (authorization-id, operation, object-name) are not availabl...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Serviceability 0 Future consideration

Add ability to set which folder file uploads are added to

Action buttons within PAW Book allow users the ability to "Allow file upload" when running a process which will prompt the user for a file to upload prior to running the process. At the moment this file is uploaded to the .\model_upload folder. Re...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Add 'net accounting of intercompany balances' option in standard report

Applicable to IBM Cognos Controller v 11 -> In standard report 'group / reconcile / intercompany balances', there is a default option 'net accounting of intercompany balances'. Such option doesn't exist in the standard report 'company / reconci...
4 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Under review

Configurable "smarts"

Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Submitted

Ability to use Distribution Lists in CA

Need the ability to use Distribution Lists in Schedules like in every other version of Cognos BI
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release

connect queries from multiple packages in a report

When you have multiple packages in one report, be able to connect them in the report. Now only possible by combining them in a data module: when you use two packages in one report, it is not possible to combine dataitems from one package with a da...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

MDX Object Type for Picklists

Picklists are a powerful tool when designing front ends. Currently we have to create a subset to hold an MDX expression to drive the user selection. As the complexity of the front-ends increase the volume of public subsets that need to be pre-crea...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

temporary catalog table

Creating a temporary catalog table could be useful in various situations to restore certain numbers of rows to their original state. Using the example of SYSSEQUENCES, it could be possible to perform a row-based recovery in the event of an error w...
12 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Make primary search configurable

Currently a User will only receive 50 search results in the primary Cognos Analytics Search. Access currently works fine so the results are limited to what the users see. The problem is that if the users could potentially see 50+ results only 50 w...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Request to add AArch64/ARM64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release.

Request to add ARM/AArch64 to Spectrum Symphony version 7.3.2 or a future release. Required for power-efficiency and cost reduction. Required to provided by EOY 2024 to Q12025. Output from /proc/cpuinfo for processor info: For processor 0 to 128 p...
8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review