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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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APIs for extracting some info from XMETA

We are currently using ETL jobs to read ETL execution logs(from DSODB) and ETL job modification details(from XMETA). This details are very important for auditing. In the CDP version, can you please include some APIs to get this information extracted.
about 3 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Workspace Tab and Widget movement flexibility

When utilizing a Cognos Workspace for building dashboards there should be more flexibility to adjust and organize the functionality of objects. Tabs and all the widgets should be center aligned. The widget refresh icon should be in center of the s...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

RTM License Accounting by Token Cost, not Monthly Total Cost

The new License Accounting feature could be extremely useful. This concept was presented to us by Larry Adams, Cacti Architect. Currently, you can define an 'application' and a monthly cost for whatever licenses are associated with that applicatio...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Not under consideration

In COGNOS Analytics (TITAN) need to be able to set "Can run but not author" at the package and report levels.

In the new version of COGNOS Titan it appears authoring has been combined to a single row. Currently there is a function to restrict by Package what tools can be used. Also editing the system xml we can remove read access to traverse by default. T...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Start bufferpool command

New db2 commands to start / reallocate the bufferpool : start bufferpool bp32k ;
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

MDM CE Multi Edit Screen is very slow with items and doesn't have paging

When users view all catalog items on Multi Edit Screen and try to scroll them, the load takes a lot of time because as we know, MDM CE loads all items between that last loaded and items on which the window is focused.
about 6 years ago in Product Master 2 Not under consideration

Support for Indian Languages

In India, the official/legal documents are documented in Indian languages. It will be good to support Indian languages like Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil. Also considering demand for chat bots in Indian languages is getting more attention, it will...
about 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Oracle connectors should support more flexible connect strings

The Oracle connector only allows configuring SID (or service)/port/hostname, whereas Oracle connect strings can normally be considerably more complex. This does not allow for connection manager configurations or even a simple failover pair of host...
about 3 years ago in Connectivity 1 Future consideration

PAW - Scheduling Snapshots

I'd like the option in PAW Life Cycle Management to schedule or automate taking snapshots.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Sybase ASE connectivity via JDBC

Sybase ASE connectivity with Cognos 10.2.1 is through compatible query mode which is a 32bit connection. We would like to know IBM's plan to support JDBC connectivity with Sybase ASE.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration