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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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Alternate Hierarchy Limitation: Is there plan to enhance report building and performance when it comes to using alt. hier in PAX?

Currently, only limited to Quick & Exploration. Although Quick is considered as static, it breaks when there are changes to any dimensions and/or alternate hierarchies. This is so frustrating to users. Is there an alternate for using alternate...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Amazon Redshift data source

Connection is using the latest jdbc driver RedshiftJDBC42-no-awssdk-1.2.36.1060Client We are looking for support of data type boolean. Importing into FM brings data type in as Int16 and results in error when testing database query subject: 'XQE-DA...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Delivered

IPL Index Build performance

On large Index Builds with LOG_INDEX_BUILDS enabled the performance of the IPL thread degrades drmatically if the whole index cannot be held in BUFFER CACHE. Once a required page is swapped out of BUFFER Cache then the IPL thread reads the require...
about 11 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Delivered

allow lsb.stream files to use data from already existing lsb.acct

If the lsb.stream file not generated or has been removed, LSF Explorer can't load the job data into ES. Currently LSF Explorer doesn't have the functionality to load the data from lsb.acct files, but it is possible to re-generate lsb.stream file b...
over 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Delivered

Provide an Operation Level Timestamp for Each Operation

Current DB2 for Z and DB2 LUW shared only the commit timestamp. Only DB2 Z also has the TS of the actual DDL time To emulate like they did for oracle to have a switch to send the DDL time instead of the UOW TS This is for the client -->FEDEX , ...
over 1 year ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Delivered

Auto-start toggle for TM1 databases on IBM PA on Cloud

We have several TM1 databases on PA Cloud (hosted by IBM). When there is maintenance and the data tier is restarted, all TM1 databases start up. Would recommend adding an auto-start toggle on each TM1 database such that sandboxes don't need to aut...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Need Better Hourglass Function in PAw

The little spinning Circle that let's one know that the system is calculating is too subtle. It needs to be a little more obvious.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Security Settings for Services based on User Groups and/or LDAP

Administering users can be quite hard when every single user must be set manually. Especially in large environments. In CP4D user groups can not be used to control access to services like Cognos, PA, Discovery and so on. It would be lot easier, if...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Delivered

Free Text Search to find multiple attributes using semi colon

Currently in PIM, using Free Text Search functionality, you can search for multiple attributes using 'OR'. This would be a bit hard for our business users and we would like to suggest to have semi colon ';' between the attributes instead of 'OR'. ...
over 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Delivered

Would like a way to stop/suspend/resume a task inside a Session Scheduler job

This would be pretty useful for debugging a broken task or one that needs to be suspended for a time.
over 1 year ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Delivered