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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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Better problem determination when error message is returned to the job submitter

When running a loader job that fails on authorization the submitter of the job does not get a proper message. The message emitted by the IDAA Loader is "HLOU5715E Unknown error during IDAA validation". This is in par with the famous Microsoft Wind...
over 6 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator Loader for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

DB2 Support

Customer would like the DB2 Unload and Load Utilities to support Partition by Growth (PBG) tablespaces.
about 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Encrypt data in transit to DB

per corporate audit finding connections from application must be encrypted, and connection strings modified to use encryption between application and database.
about 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Functionality already exists

Dynamically Construct A List Array String of Report Columns To Be Used For Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST Driver

We are currently trying to use the Progress DataDirect Autonomous REST driver to connect to some our custom UKG APIs. During our initial observation on how the driver works, we’ve noticed that even if we create a Cognos report against the APIs wit...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web - ability to use more than 13 periods for Data Entry forms

Currently, if you try to open a data entry form (in Controller Web) for period 14 or 15, then you get a message “Internal Server Error ... fsid STATUS: 500 ... Unexpected error”. It works OK if you open the same data entry form for period 12 or 13...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

Multiple hadr standbys in ASYNC mode

At present HADR claims to replicate to multiple standbys. While technically true this is practically false. Since all standbys past the 1st one must be in SUPERASYNC once the additional standbys 'glitch' up they stop processing logs and never proc...
over 6 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

A better Element management approach in Leaves dimension: Hierarchy

Currently when managing ( deleting and rebuilding) Hierarchies, it's fairly common for a C: Element in an Alt Hierarchy to end up inthe Leaves dimensions as an N: element when the hierarchy is made to go away. This causes programmatic problems/err...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Export/ Reimport rules RUX files

While there exists the the ability to load a rule from file iun turbo integrator RuleLoadFromFile(Cube, TextFile); It would be nice to be able to be able to EXPORT a rux/rules file to a text file inthe TI process, this is especially true now we ca...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Include "All" file types as default file types while file selection in Spectrum application Centre (10.2.0.12) - Reference Case TS011445497

Include "All" file types as default file types while file selection in Spectrum application Centre (10.2.0.12) - Reference Case TS011445497
about 2 years ago in Spectrum LSF / End User UI/Applicaton Center 1 Not under consideration

Provide informative Error/Warning Messages

Provide informative Error/Warning Messages so that users and/or administrator have direction to look into the issue and make correction.
about 4 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Is a defect