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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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Audit Policy enhancement for Global Temporary Tables

Audit policies are used frequently for us to track for a month the Group IDs read, write, etc of standard Tables of Type P,C,T. We would like be able to use this ability to Audit use of created Global Temporary Tables of Type G as well. This would...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Launch Update Structures (FAP) from TM1

I want to be capable of launching the Update Structures functionality, which is available in FAP, from the TM1 server so that I have complete control over the refresh of dimensions in the 'fap' tm1 server and put the functionality in a TM1 chore. ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Unable to lock GA company (Group Journals)

User is still able to pass group journals in GA company although the status has been changed to "READY"
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Roll back job submission when bsub cannot receive the jobid from mbatchd

Due to a network hiccup caused by an overloaded server, job submission using bsub returned this message which of course does not include the new jobid: Failed in an LSF library call: Communication time out. Job not submitted However the job was re...
over 9 years ago in Spectrum LSF 2 Not under consideration

Remove "obvious" deficiency in SSM scheduling when there are more than 10K open session #

When the Open Session number exceeds IBM's baseline of 10K, we can see Symphony SSM scheduling has an obvious "deficiency": Running task # starts to become much lower than the allocated slots to SSM bouncing between even 0 and very low; SSM busy o...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release

drill down on map visualization

I want to analyze a single report by looking at the map visualization at multiple levels.I currently don't have a workaround and have no choice but to put multiple maps in the report. This method is very verbose and does not perform well.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW selector widget widget should be enabled to reflect a sorted row dimension of a PAW table

If a PAW table column has been sorted (e.g. ascending by values), it is currently not possible to drag the row dimension to the canvas in order to get a a selector widget with a sorted list of members by values
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Accessing PAW books from Planning Analytics Excel(PAX)

Accessing PAW books from Planning Analytics Excel(PAX)
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Run the spark thrift jdbc/odbc server so we can connect to spark from reporting tools

It would be great if Spark as a Service ran the spark thrift jdbc/odbc server so we can can connect to spark from reporting tools.
about 7 years ago in Analytics Engine 2 Not under consideration

More functions for REST API to meet citi's business requirement

The idea is that the REST API should have the functions to inquiry Symphony common information but it doesn't have so far. The three commands I listed are just samples. We won't be able to list all of them. Your side should know what inquiry comma...
almost 5 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.2.0.2 0 Planned for future release