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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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Start Commandline-Script in Stored Procedure

It will be nice to start a Commandline-Script like test.sh from attachement in DB2-Stored Procedures. In db2 commandline call it allready works: db2 " select * from (VALUES '`sh /tmp/test.sh`') AS TEMP(Testoutput) " Commandline Result: TESTOUTPUT ...
about 3 years ago in Db2 / Statements (DDL and DML) 0 Future consideration

Additional TI Functions

Add additional TI functions to perform repetitive tasks. For example clearing a section of a cube. There a number of TI libraries that have been created to simplify such tasks. It would be good if this type of functionality can be consolidated as ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Render authenticated external images in non-HTML formatted Cognos output

We run a report that embeds an HTML image sitting on a non-Cognos webserver in the same domain. When running the report in HTML output format, the image appears in the report. When running the report in PDF and Excel 2007 format however, no image ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Copy with option Changelimit and Template switching based on changed pages

Whe are using the TEMPLATE SWITCHING with a LIMIT 16 MB in a Copy with option CHANGELIMIT. The allocation of copies is made during the utilinit and is based on 10% of the HI-U-RBA and not on the pages to be copied. In this way some very large copi...
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

manage threads with TI functions

provide TI functions for managing threads.
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add Format Classes for Objects for Standarization

Similar to classes in Cognos Analytics it would be nice to have them in Planning Analytics. This would allow an easier control over formatting of multiple objects, especially objects across tabs/workbooks. This would allow the capaiblity to contro...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Support C&DS for Oracle 19.9

IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services 8.2.2 supports Oracle 19c as the solution repository. Unfortunately IBM supports only 19.3 release. Users who already use C&DS together with Oracle 19c and plan to update this database can't do th...
about 3 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Future consideration

PA Workspace books - Conditional filtering based on values.

Currently only "Top or bottom filter can be applied on Members, Percent & Sum. Would like to have additional Conditional filtering feature which can be applied on any Dimension element(numeric/string values) of a cube-view.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

On prem DQM cube builds should retrieve data though local network and not through the cloud.

For Cognos Analytics Cloud , the Transformer Cube builds that happen on-prem at the customer should retrieve data using a direct connection to the database instead of retrieving that data through the cloud.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Disable download button in Knowledge Catalog

When cataloging data assets from COS, users are given a 'Download' option to bring the data out from the catalog and store locally. There should be an option to enable/disable this functionality provided to administrators of the catalog and the us...
over 6 years ago in Knowledge Catalog 3 Not under consideration