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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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Clicking CANCEL on "Report is Running" popup should not return to Public Folder, Should Stay in Prompt Page

Include Functionality Change in how Report running process is currently executed in Cognos BI. When the report has Multiple Prompts in 1 Prompt Screen and 1 of them is cascaded with the other, then there are situations when 1st Prompt selection ru...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Standard forms to have a formulae to auto select opening balance of actuality and period selected

change the way the form structure works to allow the first column in a standard form to be the OB actuality for the actuality the form is opened in.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

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

Enable advanced routing based on Studio application

Advanced routing in IBM administration console allows only based on package, role and group routing sets. It will be beneficial to add enhancement to route based on studio application where report has been built.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Need Ability to REORG a Tablespace Specifying a Logical Partition Range

The customer is defining a partitioned DB2 table as CREATE TABLE TEST.PART_ROLLOVER ( COL_1 CHAR(1) NOT NULL , COL_2 DATE NOT NULL ,PRIMARY KEY (COL_1) ) WITH RESTRICT ON DROP IN TEST.ROLLOVER PARTITION BY ( COL_2 ) ( PARTITION 1 ENDING AT ( '2009...
about 12 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Reorg timeout parameter

Set a new parameter to specify a reorg timeout limit.
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

blimits -n to select multiple limit name

blimits man pages says that's possible to select multiple limit names but it's not functional. can you please implement this functionality ?
about 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Suport of double dash for comments in SQL

Optim Connect should support the use of the double dash -- in sql statements to denote comments. I know you can put in comments using the slash asterisk. However, when the business provides us with SQL to use, they frequently have comments in ther...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Allow Archive to convert to CSV without license for Test Data

We have to provide files extracts for areas in the business. We would like to have the ability to give a CSV file extract of the data. Currently, you have to have a different license to run Optim Convert. We would like to be able to run Optim Conv...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Estimate time for archive

This may only apply for Retirement since we use all reference tables without SQL. It would be a nice to have if Optim could have a function to take an archive request and attempt to estimate the time required to archive. I see this as looking at i...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Application Retirement 0 Not under consideration