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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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Ability to return the status of the report/job execution run via trigger.bat

Client would like to have the ability in trigger.bat script to execute a report/job via trigger and return the status of the execution of the the report/job so that such implementation can be used to automate the report/job runs using automated to...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CLI command to export/import DS-objects in XML format

After developing new DataStage objects (or changing them), we have to manually export them in order to get them in XML Format. The only CLI functionality provided is istools, that Exports DS objects as ISX, which is not usable within a Control Ver...
about 7 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Enhance Instance Configuration encryption setup

Delivers IDR with a predefined encryption profile for Non Encrypted. This increases intuitivity on the dmconfigurets interface. Customers get confused when trying to configure their first Instance, calling for support, increasing their time to set...
over 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Make product manuals available in ePub format.

Can you please make more product manuals (specifically DB2 for z/OS) available in the ePub format? The PDF format does not work well with tablets and readers. If you zoom to get a legible font size, then you must scroll left, right, left, right on...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Lock hashing algorithms of DB2 and XES are incompatible. Leads to excessive False Contention and high IRLM CPU for GLM xfer

There is an anomaly between DB2 and XES hashing algorithms which means that a 4-byte DB2 (unique) lock hash value passed to XES may not be hashed to a unique value by XES unless the LTE size is set excessively high (1G). I understand that DB2 hash...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Graphs by MetricStudio is not accessable by users of other domain in AD - PMR 27494,100,83

in a global Cognos BI platform with users accessing via different domains and therefore different gateways as e.g. http://***:80/cognos/cgi-bin/ http://***:80/cognosINT/cgi-bin/
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support for columns with names longer than 30 characters

DVM currently fails when attempting to create virtual tables over source tables with column names longer than 30 characters. DBMS's including Postgres, Oracle and DB2 LUW allow for longer column names.
over 5 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Add support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 with Db2 11.1

Our Linux team has already moved all our Linux platforms, with the exception of Db2 platforms, from SLES version 12 to 15. As there is no actual Db2 version that supports SLES 15, the concerned platforms cannot be upgraded.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Installation & Upgrade 0 Not under consideration

Unable to convert the crosstab reports to charts

We are unable to Convert the existing Crosstab report to any Chart using Change Chart Type option/Change Visualization option from Demand tool bar as we are unable to view the charts under Demand tool bar's Change Chart Type/Change Visualization i...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Multilingual Reports

Hi Team, Is there any way to check which all reports use multinational languages? Like I need to get list of all the reports which are using report language variable with multiple languages. I need to check this for around 5000 reports which can b...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration