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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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Ability to take a report server offline, possibly into some kind of "maintenance" mode

We would like cloud client administrators to have the ability to directly take a report server offline, possibly into some kind of "maintenance" mode. Once taken offline, we would also like to have some ability to run basic tests (e.g. test data s...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support Session Scheduler Memory Limits with CGROUP v2

The current Session Scheduler in LSF 10.1 Fix Pack 14 does not support having memory limits when using CGROUP v2. Please enhance it to do so.
6 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 1 Future consideration

C++ 20 and Compiler Support for Symphony SDK

to align with our internal C++ version and compiler in use for quant library and risk engines in the environment C++ 20 on Windows : VS2019 version 16.11.31. ( May migration to VS2022 in near future) on Linux: gcc 11.2
6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

Duplicate flow to put new flow in same folder as original flow

Currently when duplicating a flow in CP4D the new flow is put in the root folder and not in the same folder as the original flow. Would be better if it worked like legacy and put the new flow in same folder
6 months ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Our customers want to be able to generate report output in PDF/A (archive) format.

Within Cognos the available report format options are the following: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=cubes-report-formats Generate CSV Output Generate PDF Output Generate XLS Output Generate XML Output Within the PDF outp...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Usability of REORG

When we did a big reorg of 32 billion records we missed some details in dis util functionality:1. how long every phase will take place, RTS knows the amount of records needs to be approx unloaded ...if its been done 1 billion in 2 hours means you ...
12 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Have different display options for Investigation Reports, specifically the Lead Time so rather than displaying in days we would want to see this in hours

Currently Lead time shows in days and seeing 0.1 days isn't necessarily useful when we want to know lead time in hours
12 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Future consideration

HASH function

Currently the HASH function is implemented as a "User Defined Function" within DataStage. This functionality was developed as-is so it's not working when trying to optimize the job with BalOpt. DataStage development team took the Hash code provid...
over 5 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Improve Calculated Column error messages

Error messages need to be more informative. This is especially true for a product that touts Augmented Intelligence. For example: I used Create Calculation and called the function but I passed a parameter that was not a date type (my bad) The mess...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable tenant users see activities related with public content

In admin console, view activities, currently tenant users will be able to see all activities related with public content even tenant users have only execute/traverse capability. The schedule/activities view should be filtered by tenant ID.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration