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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 include an image in the screen tip option

t would be a good idea to store this image somewhere in the webcontent folder in Cognos installation.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Fine grain control of LS cross-cluster preemption

Prevent preemption of the jobs in remote cluster if no job slots are available in the local cluster (and, consequently, the jobs cannot start because of the lack of hardware)
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum LSF / License Management 0 Not under consideration

mapping of jobs directories from Data Flow designer to Bitbucket folders

As per our requirement, DS Job code should be checked into the "Datastage" Folder available in BitBucket feature branch. However what we see is that a new folder called DS Projects with path "Training/Jobs" gets created instead.
almost 5 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

New Security capability to deny user access by selecting them from the namespace directory in external email

Type in external email capability Last Updated: 2021-11-24 A defect affecting the Type in external email capability is now fixed. Previously, a user who was denied the capability was still able to type in the email address of an external recipient...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Having counter the number of query failbacks

If a query failbacks to Db2 for z/OS, users would like count the number of failbacks and possibly the SQL Text itself. Today, SQL Query Monitors running for Db2 for z/OS can not differentiate the executed SQL's origin. For instance (1) SQL can be ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

CMTools for Linux

Please provide tool like CMTools.exe for Linux.We are really interested in it's CMTop tab.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

After START DB2 LIGHT(YES), provide new status messages while waiting for indoubt thread resolution

When DB2 is restartet using the LIGHT(YES) or LIGHT(CASTOUT) clause and indoubt URs exist, DB2 issues message DSNR052I at the end of restart. After this message, there is no acitvity driven by DB2 itself, that allows a monitoring or identifying wh...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

IFERROR Function does not work in PAw

We are working on the reports we will be deploying shortly and this a issue with the CAGR concept =IFERROR(F13/F$13,"n/c ") is an example. They work fine in PAx, but when we view them in PAw we get #NAME? errors returned. See attached example. Wil...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Preserving of the server .xml settings when starting from commandline in Linux

Preserve the server .xml settings when we choose the option use ./cogconfig.sh –s to start service. This saves the server.xml losing all the changes (we use it for configuring AJP port, by uncommenting the setting and sometimes changing the AJP ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add function to sort Expiration Date on License Key Center

Our Business Partner sells customers instead of us.Because of that they ordered many contracts every day. In the case of Term License, for example, they would like to generate authcodes which associated with entitlement's expiration date (ex. 31st...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration