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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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Reports>Intercompany report

1. If a company reports two rows with the same counterpart and account but different transaction currencies and the counterpart does not report anything, the report sum up the two amounts with different currencies and then creates a useless amount...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Provide support in Db2 native encryption for KMIP 1.2 or higher

DB2 native encryption currently supports KMIP 1.1 where the master key flows (in a secure communication channel) from the centralized keystore to Db2 in order to decrypt the data encryption key. Later versions of KMIP support an alternate approach...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Security 0 Not under consideration

Enable "overwrite encoding as binary" for CLOB

We have several CLOB columns in DB2 that contain binary data. Due to 0x00 Byte values we can't transfer them into a TEXT column in postgreSQL (0X00 is not accepted in utf-8). The Option "overwrite encoding as binary" on the CLOB Column in "Db2 for...
about 2 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 2 Future consideration

Lock data partition

Currently it is merely possible to lock a complete table by means of the "lock table" statement. However, for range partitioned tables, it would be beneficial to be able to lock a specific data partition. That is, a statement like: “lock data pa...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Tables/Index (Range MQ MDC etc.) 0 Not under consideration

Control Metric Dump for each dispatcher independently

Currently enabling the Metric Dump in Cognos Administration (DISP.MetricDumpEnabled) causes all servers to start dumping metric based on the last server entered in the value field in Cognos Administration. The metricdumpconfiguration.xml of the la...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Support NetApp StorageGrid

Company is migrating object storage from EMC ECS to NetApp StorageGrid.
over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Not under consideration

resizing the window

Annoying that SPSS keeps altering the Output window size and position after every analysis.
over 4 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Functionality already exists

Report Expression function "status" should catch out of scope data items

When building dynamic reports, it is sometimes necessary to build expressions that you know will fail in certain scenarios. In these cases having an error catching mechanism, like status, is incredibly useful. In this case I would like to be able ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Inverted Axis

When doing visualizations for management, typically expenses are a common topic of comparison, but with most bar/line visualizations having negatives farther away from the axis titles, it ends up looking wrong or not appealing. Allowing for the ax...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Capability to pass an individual's user account and password from Cognos Analytics on Cloud to the Google BigQuery database

We must have the ability to pass an individual's user account and password from Cognos Analytics on Cloud to the Google BigQuery database. This is very important as we plan the rollout of self-service reporting capabilities to our user community. ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Planned for future release