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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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Add Readonly Database Connection Support

It would be beneficial to have a readonly connection when accessing the database from third party software. Many products provide the ability to connect via JDBC but they also have the ability to make changes. Example LibreOffice Base can be setup...
over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Freeze Title Row

We have implemented JavaScript to freeze the top row of lists based on this tech article: http://www.ibm. com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/reporting/advanced_report_design/page622.html. Everything works as expected when viewing the active re...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Folder in Dynamic Cube dimensions

When modeling Dynamic Cubes with Cognos Cube Designer, it would be very usefull to group Dimensions assigned to Cubes into Folders.As a reference, we would need the same way available in "Measure modeling", where we can group measures into "measur...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support LSF Windows ARM Based Execution Hosts

We would like to be able to install LSF Server on ARM based Windows machines for our Windows based simulation farms.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Installation 1 Not under consideration

View Activities & Schedules, Allow for users that do not have Scheduling capability

Company users rely on Cognos team for all scheduling, users are not allowed to schedule. However, users want to know if their report schedules are failing/succeeding, they want transparency into schedules, without the ability to modify/edit/delete...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Not under consideration

CSV or Delimited result set function in SQL

My result set final format needs to be CSV. It would be awesome if I could use SELECT CSV(*) FROM TABLEA to return my result set as a column of CSV format. so for instance I have a requirement to produce a csv file of variable record lengths SELEC...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration

@MEDIAN

Returns the median of values for FIELD over the last EXPR records received by the current node, including the current record. It is similart to @MEAN https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spss-modeler/18.4.0?topic=reference-sequence-functions#clem_functio...
over 2 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Modeler 0 Planned for future release

Planning Analytics - non-administrator publishing

This would allow non-administrators more flexibility when it comes to publishing PAFE reports to PAW without having to involved a adminstrator.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

Include 'NTLM' as an authentication method in DataStage Hierarchical stage

We have an important project that needs to source the data from the SharePoint page. The default authentication method in our SharePoint farm is 'NTLM' which is not supported by Hierarchical stage. It's impossible to enable the other method on our...
over 4 years ago in Connectivity 3 Not under consideration

Rewind the current database from logs

Opposite to roll forward, it will be great to have the possibility to perform a rewind of a database (in roll-forward state or normal one), to a previous state with the logs. It will be like uncommit, or a general rollback.
over 4 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration