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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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when drop-create a unique index , start tablespace in RO to avoid duplicate keys

Sometimes our customers want to add an extra column/change order of colums in a unique index, which requires drop-create of index. To avoid duplicate keys, we often create a new unique index and then drop the old unique index - or drop-create ind...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Increased Character Count for Journal Text when doing Import of General Ledger Journal

Using Transfer>External Data>Import General Ledger Journals, there is a character limit of 255 on the journal text. This is very short for a journal text. Also to note, is much shorter than what is allowed if User were to manually create the...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Alignment format of Reports download from Controller

When downloading some standard reports (Eg. Company>Reports>Journals, Group>Reports>Journals, Maintain>Account Structure>Reports, etc.) in excel format from Controller, the alignment of the columns are incorrect. The headers shif...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

Multi-threaded SMX

Currently there's just one pair of SMX send/receive threads per a RSS couple. On WANs with high latency (which is fairly common with WANs) this can limit the throughput severely. Multiplexing replication traffic over a configurable amount of SMX s...
almost 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Export of filters to Excel from Workspace Advanced

When creating a report in Workspace Advanced with filters, when this report is exported to Excel the filters are not displayed in the spreadsheet as they are form other products. When run from Cognos Workspace and exported , the filters are shown....
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 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

Function of row highlighting in list

Customer want a function of row highlighting function in list as well as current column body highlighting.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Add ODM to Azure Active Directory application gallery

For Azure SSO, our organization requires ODM to be in the Azure Active Directory application gallery.
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 2 Future consideration