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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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Control Record Counts in Report Preview Mode

When building reports in preview mode, you cannot control the number of records returned. When a user develops a report against a large table (100K+) the time to see updates and the taxing of the database server can be extreme.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drop Down Selector fill colour

The default background colour for Drop Down Selector is white without any ability to change the colour to fit with theme of the work book. The fill colour in general style only applies to the border colour.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Saving the Reportview from Report defaults to location of report instead of My Content

In Cognos Analytics 11.1.7 FP2, when the report is run in the background from standard reports folders and saving the report view it is defaulting to team content . Would like to see if there is any setting on server side to point save the reports...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Delete profiles using a batch job instead of doing it thru the panels

ADP has approx 40 environments. So to cleanup profiles that aren't being used is a very labor instensive .
about 4 years ago in Db2 Automation Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Query / Set DS Project NLS setting using command line

Need command line option to query & set NLS setting for a datastage project. currently it is handled thru GUI which is very time consuming for large volume of projects and looking for options to validate / automate programmatically.
about 4 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

LZ4 DB2 Compression Option - DB2 Connector Stage

As we've been migrating from Netezza to DB2 (with the support of IBM) - It's been noticed (by IBM) that the LZ4 Compression Option is not available in the DB2 Connector. Tests performed via the DB2 Command Line (on the Datastage server) show signi...
about 4 years ago in Connectivity 0 Functionality already exists

Change PWD in Data Sources without redeploying application

When creating a datasource in the Studio tool for the purpose of pulling data from an external relational database to populate a scenario, the system requires that the connection information for the external RDB (including the password) be provide...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

Cplex jar under DOC does not allow to iterate on Parameter Set

As pointed out in the PMR, some APIs of CPLEX are not available in DOC. The following ones for instance would be usefull for us (JAVA sample) * Iterate over IloCplex.ParameterSet to display the changed parameters* set MipDisplay crashes with excep...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization Center 1 Not under consideration

Constraint filtering in the problem browser

when you review the expression of the constraint from the problem browser, to see what constraint has been written from your code.the view allows to filter to some variables, order the display can be changed and display only the constraint that ar...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration

Adding a warning when a data source are not populate in a model

Once data elements are read once, adding a new data source has no effect. A warning that tells that adding a new data source after had no effect will help to debug. Here is an example. The observe problem was that no data where send to the databas...
about 4 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio 0 Not under consideration